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Oracle
Verses
10 results- VerseNumbers 24:23Once more Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Ah, who can live unless God has ordained it?
- VerseNumbers 23:18Then Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Arise, O Balak, and listen; give ear to me, O son of Zippor.
- VersePsalms 36:1An oracle is in my heart regarding the transgression of the wicked man: There is no fear of God before his eyes.
- VerseNumbers 24:20Then Balaam saw Amalek and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Amalek was first among the nations, but his end is destruction.”
- VerseNumbers 24:21Next he saw the Kenites and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Your dwelling place is secure, and your nest is set in a cliff.
People
7 results- PersonRebekahIsaac's bride, drawn from Abraham's kindred by providence (ch. 24); mother of the twins, who receives the oracle “the elder shall serve the younger.”
- PersonJoelProphet, son of Pethuel (Joel 1:1); his locust-plague oracle widens into the Day of the LORD and the promise of the Spirit poured out on all flesh (2:28), quoted by Peter at…
- PersonAmosShepherd and dresser of sycomore trees from Tekoa (Amos 1:1; 7:14), sent from Judah to prophesy against Israel's prosperity-era injustice; his fallen-tabernacle-of-David oracle…
- PersonIsaiahEighth-century BCE prophet of Judah whose oracles make up the book of Isaiah; a central voice for messianic prophecy.
- PersonHaggaiProphet of the four dated oracles that restarted the stalled temple (Ezra 5:1; Hag 1:1); promised the latter house a greater glory and Zerubbabel the reopened signet.
Places
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8 results- WordH1687 דְּבִיר · dᵉbîyr (Hebrew)the shrine or innermost part of the sanctuary. The Hebrew word stands 16 times in the original text.
- WordH1697 דָּבָר · dâbâr (Hebrew)a word. The Hebrew word stands 1,440 times in the original text.
- WordG3051 λόγιον · lógion (Greek)an utterance (of God). The Greek word stands 4 times in the original text.
- WordH5002 נְאֻם · nᵉʼum (Hebrew)an oracle. The Hebrew word stands 376 times in the original text.
- WordG5537 χρηματίζω · chrēmatízō (Greek)to utter an oracle (compare the original sense of ), i.e. divinely intimate. The Greek word stands 9 times in the original text.
Themes
3 results- ThemeWisdomWisdom in Scripture (Hebrew *hokmah*, H2451) is skilled living before God, not accumulated information. Its first appearances are not proverbs but craftsmen: the wise-hearted…
- 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…
- ThemeJudgmentJudgment in Scripture is not a stray topic but a load-bearing theme, running from Eden to the lake of fire. It begins with a question, not a threat: Abraham asks whether the…
Topics
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2 results- ApologeticsThe Seventy-Year Babylonian CaptivityJeremiah fixed Judah's exile at seventy years in a dated oracle — the fourth year of Jehoiakim, 605 BC, the year Nebuchadnezzar broke Egypt at Carchemish (Jeremiah 25:1…
- ApologeticsThe Destruction of Jerusalem (70 CE): The Synoptics vs. JosephusJesus' Matthew 24 / Luke 21 oracle against Jerusalem laid beside Josephus's eyewitness account of Titus's 70 CE siege - with the dating question fully steelmanned.
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