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Nation
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Nation names 2 things on this site
- Nation, a heading of the topical index.A heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- Nation Born in a Day, a messianic prophecy.Isaiah asked the rhetorical question of whether a nation could be born in a single day—expecting the answer no, but prophesying it would happen for Zion.
Subjects
1 resultVerses
652 results- Verse1 Chronicles 16:20they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
- VersePsalms 105:13they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
- VerseLuke 21:10Then He told them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
- VerseLuke 7:5for he loves our nation and has built our synagogue.”
- Verse2 Chronicles 15:6Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.
People
2 resultsPlaces
3 results- PlaceEgyptThe land where Joseph rose, where Israel grew into a nation in bondage, where the Passover lamb was slain and the sea opened, and where the child Jesus was hidden until Herod died.
- PlaceEdomThe highland nation descended from Esau that refused Israel passage on the King's Highway, and whose pride the prophets answered.
- PlaceCush (Ethiopia)Kingdom south of Egypt on the upper Nile, addressed among the nations in Zephaniah 2:12; Zephaniah's own lineage runs through a father named Cushi.
Events
1 resultWords (Strong's)
21 results- WordH1471 גּוֹי · gôwy (Hebrew)a foreign nation. The Hebrew word stands 561 times in the original text.
- WordH523 אֻמַּה · ʼummah (Hebrew)a collection, i.e. community of persons. The Hebrew word stands 7 times in the original text.
- WordH524 אֻמָּה · ʼummâh (Hebrew){a collection, i.e. community of persons}. The Hebrew word stands 8 times in the original text.
- WordH5971 עַם · ʻam (Hebrew)a people (as a congregated unit). The Hebrew word stands 1,873 times in the original text.
- WordG1484 ἔθνος · éthnos (Greek)a race (as of the same habit), i.e. a tribe. The Greek word stands 161 times in the original text.
Concepts
1 resultThemes
12 results- ThemeRedemptionRedemption is the Bible's word for rescue that costs something. Two Hebrew verbs carry the weight: *ga'al*, the act of a near kinsman (*go'el*) who buys back land, a person, or…
- 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*…
- ThemeForgivenessForgiveness in Scripture is not a sentiment but a transaction: a debt is real, and someone absorbs it. The Old Testament establishes this before it ever preaches it. The…
- ThemeSufferingSuffering enters the story at the Fall. Genesis 3 turns childbirth into pain and labor into toil, and the rest of the Old Testament treats hardship as the ordinary texture of…
- ThemeCovenantIn Scripture a covenant is not a vague feeling. It is a formal, oath-bound promise between named parties, with a stated promise and usually a visible sign to mark it. (The…
Topics
11 results- TopicAbominationA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicAssassinationA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicImaginationA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicMiscegenationA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicNationA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
Prophecies
19 results- ProphecyNation Born in a DayIsaiah asked the rhetorical question of whether a nation could be born in a single day—expecting the answer no, but prophesying it would happen for Zion.
- ProphecyNations Attack JerusalemAll nations will unite to attack Jerusalem before Christ's return.
- ProphecyIsrael Scattered Among NationsIsrael would be scattered to every corner of the earth.
- ProphecyEgypt No Longer Rules NationsEgypt would become a lowly kingdom and never again rule over other nations.
- ProphecyIsrael a Byword Among NationsIsrael would become a proverb and byword of scorn among all nations.
Apologetics
4 results- ApologeticsIsrael's Regathering: A Nation Reborn in a DayMultiple Old Testament prophets predicted that Israel would be scattered and then regathered from all nations—a prediction fulfilled uniquely in 1948 when the modern State of…
- ApologeticsOrigin of Life Probability ThresholdsEugene Koonin of the National Center for Biotechnology Information calculated the odds of a coupled replication-translation system arising by chance anywhere in the observable…
- ApologeticsEzekiel's Prophecy Against Egypt's Permanent DiminishmentEzekiel 29-30 predicts that Egypt would become 'the basest of the kingdoms' and 'never again exalt itself above the nations'—a prediction dramatically fulfilled despite Egypt…
- ApologeticsTyre's Destruction: A 250-Year Prophecy Fulfilled to the LetterEzekiel 26 predicts seven specific details about Tyre's destruction that were fulfilled over 250 years by multiple nations, including the improbable detail that its ruins would…
Featured studies
3 results- StudyObadiah: the Study GuideThe OT's shortest book carries one of its largest claims: Edom's proud fall in the clefts of the rock previews the Day of the LORD on every nation that lifts itself against Zion: and closes with the…
- StudyZephaniah: the Study GuideThe great Day of the LORD sweeps the whole earth, narrows onto Judah, widens across the nations, narrows again onto Jerusalem alone: and then, at its tightest point, narrows past the nation to one…
- StudyAyin (ע): the Hebrew letterThe eye, and the letter Israel's scribes wrote oversized in the nation's daily confession.
Voices
2 results- VoiceDutch SheetsDutch Sheets (born 1954) is an American Charismatic pastor, author, and intercession-movement teacher. Educated at Christ for the Nations Institute (Dallas), he served as a…
- 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…
Apocrypha (study resources)
186 results- Study resourceSirach 50:25There be two manner of nations which my heart abhorreth, and the third is no nation:
- Study resource1 Maccabees 1:34And they put therein a sinful nation, wicked men, and fortified themselves therein.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 2:10What nation hath not had a part in her kingdom and gotten of her spoils?
- Study resourceWisdom of Solomon 10:15She delivered the righteous people and blameless seed from the nation that oppressed them.
- Study resourceAdditions to Esther 11:9And the whole righteous nation was troubled, fearing their own evils, and were ready to perish.
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