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Verses(5+)
- VerseActs 4:2greatly disturbed that they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.
- VerseExodus 32:28The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people fell dead.
- VerseActs 26:23that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”
- VerseJohn 12:17Meanwhile, many people continued to testify that they had been with Jesus when He called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead.
- Verse1 Corinthians 15:29If these things are not so, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them?
People(5+)
- PersonCaiaphasThe high priest who counseled "that one man should die for the people" — an unwitting prophecy of the atonement (John 11:49-52; 18:14).
- PersonSaulIsrael's first king, head and shoulders above the people; began in humility, ended in rejection — sparing what God devoted, consulting a medium at Endor, and falling on Gilboa.
- PersonRuthThe Moabitess who clave to Naomi — "thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God" — gleaned in the field of Boaz, and became great-grandmother to David: a Gentile grafted…
- PersonEstherHadassah, the orphan exile who became queen of Persia and, at the risk of "if I perish, I perish," stood between her people and Haman's decree — providence working where God's…
- PersonRehoboamSolomon's son whose refusal of the elders' counsel at Shechem — answering the people with scorpions — tore ten tribes from the house of David.
Places(5)
- PlaceLystraThe Lycaonian town where a lame man was healed, the crowd tried to sacrifice to Paul and Barnabas as gods, and the same crowd stoned Paul and dragged him out as dead — and…
- PlaceMoabThe high country east of the Dead Sea — Lot's descendants, Balak's hire of Balaam, Ruth's homeland, and the plains where Moses saw the land and died.
- PlaceEn-gediThe oasis stronghold by the Dead Sea where David cut Saul's robe in the cave and let the king walk out alive.
- PlaceKadesh-BarneaThe oasis on Canaan's doorstep where the spies returned, the people refused, and a generation turned back into forty years of wilderness.
- PlaceMount HorOn the border of Edom, where Aaron was gathered to his people and the priesthood passed to Eleazar in the sight of the congregation.
Manuscripts(2)
- ManuscriptGreat Isaiah ScrollThe oldest substantially complete Hebrew manuscript of the book of Isaiah; found at Qumran among the Dead Sea Scrolls.
- ManuscriptThe Nash PapyrusA scrap of Egyptian papyrus carrying the Ten Commandments and the Shema — the oldest Hebrew Bible text known until the Dead Sea Scrolls turned up.
Words (Strong's)(5+)
Concepts(1)
Themes(4)
- 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…
- ThemeSalvationSalvation in Scripture is not a single transaction but a single story told from Eden to Revelation: God rescues a people who cannot rescue themselves, and He does it on His own…
- 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…
- ThemeKingdom of God"The kingdom of God" names not a place first but a reign — God's kingly rule breaking in, which then produces a people and a realm who live under it. The storyline starts long…
Topics(1)
Prophecies(5+)
- ProphecyDead Sea RevivalEzekiel predicted the lifeless Dead Sea would be healed and filled with fish, with fishermen along its shores from Engedi to Eneglaim.
- ProphecyGreat Shepherd Brought Again from DeadOld Testament shepherd imagery applied to the deliverer who leads God's people through waters (Isaiah 63) finds fulfillment in the New Testament's Great Shepherd brought back…
- ProphecyRaises the DeadThe Messiah would raise the dead.
- ProphecyThe Dead RaisedThe Messiah will raise the dead for judgment.
- ProphecyIsrael Preserved as a PeopleIsrael would be preserved as a distinct people forever.
Apologetics(5+)
- ApologeticsThe Dead Sea Scrolls and Textual PreservationEleven caves at Qumran yielded roughly 930 manuscripts between 1947 and 1956, about 230 of them biblical — copies of every book of the Hebrew Bible but Esther, written between…
- ApologeticsHittite Empire ConfirmationNineteenth-century critics treated the Old Testament's Hittites as a people invented by the biblical writers. In 1906 Hugo Winckler's excavation at Boğazköy in central Turkey…
- ApologeticsEdom's Perpetual DesolationEdom is the one neighbour of Israel that left no successor: no state, no people, no language, no claimant to the name. Obadiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Malachi all sentenced it…
- ApologeticsThe 153 Fish of John 21John 21:11 counts the resurrection catch at exactly 153 large fish. Richard Bauckham's 2002 study points to Ezekiel 47:10, where the healed Dead Sea teems with fish from…
- ApologeticsThe Septuagint and New Testament QuotationsRoughly two-thirds of the New Testament's some 300 Old Testament quotations follow the Greek Septuagint rather than the Hebrew that became the Masoretic Text. The Dead Sea…
Authors(2)
- AuthorCommodianCommodian wrote Christian poetry in Latin for people who were never going to read a theologian. Two works survive. The *Instructions* is a set of eighty short poems, each one…
- AuthorDavid BrainerdDavid Brainerd (April 20, 1718 – January 9, 1747) was a Colonial American Presbyterian missionary to Native Americans (Seneca and Delaware peoples of New York, New Jersey, and…
Apocrypha (study resources)(5+)
- Study resourceJudith 16:22And many desired her, but none knew her all the days of her life, after that Manasses her husband was dead, and was gathered to his people.
- Study resourceJudith 5:6This people are descended of the Chaldeans:
- Study resourceJudith 6:18Then the people fell down and worshipped God, and cried unto God. saying,
- Study resource2 Esdras 12:50So the people went their way into the city, like as I commanded them:
- Study resource2 Esdras 2:24Abide still, O my people, and take thy rest, for thy quietness still come.