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The Lamb
Feature Pages(5+)
- FeatureRevelation — the Study GuideThe unveiling of Jesus Christ: the book's own three-fold key, its architecture of sevens, and the garden lost in Genesis given back as a garden-city.
- FeatureThe LambAnnounced as the Lion of Judah, seen as a Lamb standing as though slain — the reversal that runs the whole book of Revelation.
- FeatureNew Heavens and New EarthThe Bible's first new creation set facing its last: Isaiah 65–66 and Revelation 21–22, line answering line.
- FeatureThe ExodusPlagues, Passover, sea, and song — the deliverance every later rescue in Scripture is told in the vocabulary of, and the new-exodus echo through Isaiah, Luke, Paul, and Revelation.
- FeatureHe (ה) — the Hebrew letterThe breath letter — the one added to Abram's name.
Verses(5+)
- VerseExodus 29:39Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight.
- VerseNumbers 28:4Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight,
- VersePsalms 114:4the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
- VerseRevelation 6:3And when the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!”
- VerseGenesis 21:28Abraham separated seven ewe lambs from the flock,
People(5+)
- PersonThe Samaritan WomanThe woman at Jacob's well to whom Jesus revealed living water and declared Himself Messiah; her testimony brought a Samaritan town to faith (John 4).
- PersonJohn the BaptistThe forerunner sent to bear witness to the light; he hailed Jesus as "the Lamb of God" and said "He must increase, but I must decrease" (John 1:29; 3:30).
- PersonPaul the ApostleFirst-century apostle to the Gentiles; former Pharisee turned missionary and author of a significant portion of the New Testament.
- PersonJohn the ApostleJohn the son of Zebedee — the "disciple whom Jesus loved," eyewitness and named author of the Fourth Gospel (John 21:24).
- PersonHeman the EzrahiteA Levitical singer of the Korahite guild, named in the superscription of the somber Ps 88.
Places(5+)
- PlaceThe TempleThe house of the LORD in Jerusalem — Solomon's temple and the Second Temple — the place the Psalms long to enter and praise God (Ps 84; 122).
- PlaceBethany beyond the JordanThe place across the Jordan where John was baptizing and bore witness to Jesus, and where Jesus later withdrew (John 1:28; 10:40).
- PlaceBeershebaThe well and altar of oath — the southern anchor of the patriarchal land.
- PlacePenielThe ford of the Jabbok where Jacob wrestled God 'face to face' (Gen 32:30).
- PlaceGethsemaneOlive garden across the Kidron at the foot of the Mount of Olives where Jesus prayed in agony, "not my will, but thine," and was betrayed with a kiss.
Manuscripts(5+)
- ManuscriptThe Leningrad CodexThe oldest complete Hebrew Bible that survived in one piece — and the book almost every modern Old Testament is translated from.
- 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.
- ManuscriptThe Samaritan PentateuchThe first five books, kept by a community that split from Judaism long ago, in their own alphabet — and differing from the Jewish text in thousands of places.
- ManuscriptThe Cairo Geniza FragmentsA synagogue storeroom in Old Cairo that nobody emptied for nine hundred years — and roughly 200,000 pieces of writing came out of it.
- ManuscriptThe Crosby–Schøyen CodexOne of the oldest bound books in the world — an Egyptian Christian's reader, in Coptic, with 1 Peter and Jonah inside.
Events(5)
- EventGiving of the Law at SinaiThe covenant and law-giving at Mount Sinai following the Exodus; Israel receives the Ten Commandments and the broader Torah.
- EventCrucifixion of ChristThe public execution of Jesus of Nazareth by Roman crucifixion in Jerusalem under Pontius Pilate — the central event of the Christian faith.
- EventExodus from EgyptThe departure of Israel from Egyptian bondage under the leadership of Moses, foundational to Israel's self-understanding in the Hebrew Bible.
- EventDavid's Coronation at HebronDavid's anointing as king — first over the tribe of Judah at Hebron (c. 1010 BCE), then over all Israel (c. 1003 BCE).
- EventBabylonian Exile (586 BCE)The Neo-Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem and the First Temple, and the resulting deportation of most of Judah's population — the central trauma of the Hebrew Bible.
Words (Strong's)(5+)
Concepts(5+)
- ConceptThe LambFrom Abraham's "God will provide himself a lamb" to the Lamb standing as slain in heaven — the Bible's longest single image.
- ConceptThe SerpentThe adversary of Genesis 3, identified by name in Revelation 12 — "that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan."
- ConceptThe Abrahamic CovenantLand, seed, and blessing sworn to one man — unconditional, and the root every later promise grows from.
- ConceptThe Davidic CovenantA house, a kingdom, and a throne established forever — the promise that makes a coming King inevitable.
- ConceptThe New CovenantLaw written on hearts, sins remembered no more — promised to Israel by Jeremiah, ratified in a cup on the night of betrayal.
Themes(5+)
- 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…
- ThemeFaith**Faith across the canon is less a feeling than a transaction: a person trusts what God has said and acts on it before the outcome is visible.** The Old Testament rarely uses…
- ThemeResurrectionThe hope of resurrection surfaces gradually across the Old Testament before it becomes explicit. Job — likely the oldest book in the canon — already confesses a living Redeemer…
- 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…
- 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…
Prophecies(5+)
- ProphecyThe Massacre of InnocentsRachel's weeping foreshadowed the slaughter of children connected to the Messiah's birth.
- 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…
- ProphecyIsrael Regathered to the LandIsrael would be regathered from worldwide dispersion a second time.
- ProphecyFrom the Tribe of JudahJacob's blessing narrowed the messianic line to the tribe of Judah. The sceptre (kingship) would remain with Judah until 'Shiloh' (the Messiah) came.
- ProphecyAnointed by the Holy SpiritThe sevenfold Spirit of God would rest upon the Messiah — wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge, fear of the Lord.
Apologetics(5+)
- ApologeticsThe Moral Argument for God's ExistenceJ. L. Mackie, the twentieth century's most formidable atheist philosopher, agreed that objective moral values would be entities of a very strange sort, utterly different from…
- ApologeticsThe Problem of Evil: Christian ResponsesJ. L. Mackie framed the logical problem of evil in Mind in 1955; in 1982 he conceded that Alvin Plantinga's free will defence had answered it, and the philosophical debate…
- ApologeticsThe Cyrus CylinderThe Cyrus Cylinder (539 BC), recovered in Babylon in 1879, records Cyrus restoring the gods and populations of cities his predecessors had deported - the imperial pattern the…
- ApologeticsThe Nazareth InscriptionA Greek imperial edict against disturbing tombs, obtained from Nazareth in 1878 and dated to the early imperial period. Recent isotopic work complicates the once-confident…
- ApologeticsThe Contingency Argument (Leibniz)Leibniz asked in 1697 why there is something rather than nothing, and answered that no chain of contingent things can supply its own explanation — the series must terminate in…
Authors(5+)
- AuthorDidymus the BlindDidymus lost his sight at four years old, before he had learned to read. He never read a page in his life. He learned Scripture by having it read aloud to him, and he learned…
- AuthorJohn 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…
- AuthorAphrahat the Persian SageAphrahat lived and wrote in the Persian Empire, outside Roman territory, in the first half of the fourth century. He wrote in Syriac. He seems never to have read a word of…
- AuthorNerses of LambronNerses was born in 1153 at the castle of Lambron in Cilicia — Armenian Cilicia, the kingdom Armenians had built along the southeastern coast of Asia Minor after the Seljuk…
- AuthorJeromeEusebius Hieronymus was born about 347 at Stridon, a town on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia that no longer exists. His parents were Christians with money. They sent him to…
Apocrypha (study resources)(5+)
- Study resourceSirach 13:17What fellowship hath the wolf with the lamb? so the sinner with the godly.
- Study resource1 Esdras 7:7And to the dedication of the temple of the Lord they offered an hundred bullocks two hundred rams, four hundred lambs;
- Study resourceWisdom of Solomon 19:9For they went at large like horses, and leaped like lambs, praising thee, O Lord, who hadst delivered them.
- Study resource1 Esdras 8:66Threescore and twelve lambs, goats for a peace offering, twelve; all of them a sacrifice to the Lord.
- Study resourceSirach 46:16He called upon the mighty Lord, when his enemies pressed upon him on every side, when he offered the sucking lamb.