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Pit
Verses
145 results- VerseIsaiah 24:17Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of the earth.
- VerseLamentations 3:53They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
- Verse1 Chronicles 8:35The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz.
- Verse1 Chronicles 9:41The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tahrea, and Ahaz.
- VerseJeremiah 48:43Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of Moab,” declares the LORD.
People
2 results- PersonOmriArmy commander made king of Israel who founded Samaria as the northern capital; politically formidable, spiritually judged — "worse than all that were before him."
- PersonGaius (3 John)The beloved addressee of 3 John, walking in truth, commended for faithful hospitality to the brethren going forth for the sake of the Name (3 Jn 1-8).
Places
10 results- PlaceBabylonAncient Mesopotamian city and imperial capital; site of the Israelite exile and a recurring biblical symbol of worldly power.
- PlaceSusa (Shushan)The Persian winter capital where Esther was crowned, Haman built his gallows, and Nehemiah served the king's cup.
- PlaceAssyriaMesopotamian empire whose capital Nineveh repented at Jonah's preaching and fell to Nahum's burden in 612 BC; the rod of God's anger against the northern kingdom (722 BC).
- PlaceNo-Amon (Thebes)Thebes, the great southern capital of Egypt sacked by Ashurbanipal in 663 BC, which Nahum held up to Nineveh as the precedent for its own fall.
- PlaceSamariaThe hill Omri bought and built his capital on, where Ahab raised a temple to Baal, where the four lepers found the Aramean camp empty, which fell to Assyria in 722 BC, and…
Words (Strong's)
- WordH875 בְּאֵר · bᵉʼêr (Hebrew)a pit. The Hebrew word stands 38 times in the original text.
- WordH7816 שְׁחוּת · shᵉchûwth (Hebrew)pit. The Hebrew word stands 1 time in the original text.
- WordH953 בּוֹר · bôwr (Hebrew)a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison). The Hebrew word stands 66 times in the original text.
- WordH6354 פַּחַת · pachath (Hebrew)a pit, especially forcatching animals. The Hebrew word stands 10 times in the original text.
- WordH7845 שַׁחַת · shachath (Hebrew)a pit (especially as a trap). The Hebrew word stands 23 times in the original text.
Themes
2 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*…
- 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
14 results- TopicCapital and LaborA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicChapiterA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicHospitalityA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicInhospitablenessA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicJupiterA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
Prophecies
6 results- ProphecySamaria Falls to AssyriaSamaria (capital of Northern Israel) would fall with extreme violence.
- ProphecyFall of Samaria to AssyriaHosea and Amos predicted the destruction of Samaria and the northern kingdom's capital by foreign invaders.
- ProphecyCalled LordDavid called the Messiah 'my Lord' — the Messiah would be greater than David himself despite being his descendant.
- ProphecyNo Bones BrokenDespite the violence of crucifixion, none of the Messiah's bones would be broken.
- ProphecyRabbah of the Ammonites to Be DestroyedEzekiel and Amos predicted Rabbah (the Ammonite capital, modern Amman, Jordan) would become a pasture for camels and flocks.
Apologetics
4 results- 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…
- ApologeticsBabylon's Permanent DesolationIsaiah 13-14 and Jeremiah 50-51 predict Babylon's fall to the Medes, its permanent desolation, and its never being rebuilt—fulfilled over centuries despite Babylon being the…
- 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…
- 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…
Voices
2 results- VoiceEvan RobertsEvan Roberts went down the pit at eleven and kept his Bible with him at the coalface. For years he woke in the night to pray, and he prayed one thing: that God would bend…
- VoiceFanny CrosbyFanny Crosby lost her sight as a baby to a doctor's botched treatment, and refused for the rest of her life to be pitied for it — she said the first face she ever saw would be…