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3 results- PersonSolomonDavid's son and the third king of Israel; the temple-builder and wisdom-king, to whom Psalms 72 and 127 are ascribed.
- PersonTertiusThe scribe who wrote the letter to the Romans at Paul's dictation and added his own greeting (Rom 16:22).
- PersonEzraPriest and ready scribe of the law of Moses who came up from Babylon, set his heart to seek, do, and teach the law, and led the returned community's reform.
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2 resultsWords (Strong's)
2 resultsThemes
8 results- ThemeJusticeScripture's justice vocabulary runs on two paired Hebrew terms: *mishpat* (H4941), the right verdict rendered at the city gate — a legal, courtroom word — and *tsedaqah*…
- ThemeGraceGrace is God's unearned favor. The Hebrew word for it is *chen* — a gift given because the giver is gracious, not because the receiver has earned it — and it is *chen* that the…
- ThemeCreationScripture opens with a claim, not an argument: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen 1:1). The Genesis account moves in an ordered six-day sequence…
- ThemeHolinessHoliness begins as a claim about God before it becomes a summons to His people. The Hebrew *qadosh* carries a double sense — "set apart" and "whole, intact" — and Leviticus…
- ThemeHope**Biblical hope is not optimism.** It is confident expectation anchored in God's character and God's word, held by people who often cannot see the outcome and sometimes cannot…
Topics
2 resultsProphecies
7 results- ProphecyThe Medo-Persian Dual EmpireDaniel described the Medo-Persian Empire as a ram with two horns, one higher than the other, with the higher arising last—and predicted its expansion westward, northward, and…
- ProphecyMinistry of MiraclesIsaiah described the messianic age as one of miraculous healing — the blind seeing, the deaf hearing, the lame walking.
- ProphecyHands and Feet PiercedWritten approximately 1000 BC, this psalm describes piercing of hands and feet — a form of execution (crucifixion) that did not exist in David's time.
- ProphecyMy God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken MeThe Messiah would cry out the opening words of Psalm 22 from the cross — a psalm that describes crucifixion in detail.
- ProphecyLed Captivity Captive and Gave GiftsDavid's psalm describes a victorious king ascending to the heights after conquest, leading captives in triumph and distributing spoils. Paul applies this directly to Christ's…
Apologetics
3 results- ApologeticsCyrus Named 150 Years Before His BirthIsaiah 44-45 names Cyrus the Great as Israel's deliverer roughly 150 years before his birth, describing his specific role in rebuilding Jerusalem and releasing the Jewish exiles.
- ApologeticsCaiaphas Ossuary DiscoveryIn November 1990 a bulldozer broke through the roof of a first-century burial cave in Jerusalem's Peace Forest, exposing twelve limestone ossuaries; the most ornate was…
- ApologeticsBiblical Foreknowledge: Scientific Statements Ahead of Their TimeIn 1847 Ignaz Semmelweis cut maternal deaths in the First Division of Vienna General Hospital from 18.27% in April to 2.2% in June by ordering hand-washing — a practice…
Voices
71 results- VoiceEznik of KolbEznik was an Armenian, born around 380, and he belongs to the single most productive generation in the history of his nation's literature. Armenia had adopted Christianity as a…
- VoicePope Urban IUrban became bishop of Rome in 222, succeeding Callistus, and held the office until 230. His eight years fell in one of the strangest windows in the history of the early…
- VoiceJohn of the CrossJuan de Yepes y Álvarez was born in 1542 at Fontiveros, a village near Ávila in Castile. His father came from a family of silk merchants, married beneath his class, and was…
- VoiceCosmas IndicopleustesCosmas was an Alexandrian merchant who spent his working life at sea. He sailed the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, traded along the coast of East Africa, and went inland into…
- VoiceVigilius of ThapsusVigilius was bishop of Thapsus, a coastal town in the African province of Byzacena, in the second half of the fifth century. He was alive and active in 484, and the date of his…
Apocrypha (study resources)
26 results- Study resource1 Esdras 1:5According as David the king of Israel prescribed, and according to the magnificence of Solomon his son: and standing in the temple according to the several dignity of the…
- Study resource1 Esdras 2:17To king Artexerxes our lord, Thy servants, Rathumus the storywriter, and Semellius the scribe, and the rest of their council, and the judges that are in Celosyria and Phenice.
- Study resource1 Esdras 2:25Then the king wrote back again to Rathumus the storywriter, to Beeltethmus, to Semellius the scribe, and to the rest that were in commission, and dwellers in Samaria and Syria…
- Study resource1 Esdras 2:30Then king Artexerxes his letters being read, Rathumus, and Semellius the scribe, and the rest that were in commission with them, removing in haste toward Jerusalem with a troop…
- Study resource1 Esdras 8:3This Esdras went up from Babylon, as a scribe, being very ready in the law of Moses, that was given by the God of Israel.
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