Thematic Bible: Awakenings and religious reforms


Thematic Bible



And Crispus, the ruler of the Synagogue, with all his family, had faith in the Lord; and a great number of the people of Corinth, hearing the word, had faith and were given baptism. Verse ConceptsBaptism, Administered ByBaptism, Features Ofevangelism, kinds ofFamilies, Examples OfBaptism, practice ofMission, Of The ChurchOrdinancesSynagogueReligious AwakeningsChristian BaptismThose Who Believed In ChristBaptism



However, some of Asher and Manasseh and Zebulun put away their pride and came to Jerusalem. Verse ConceptsHumilityReligious Awakenings

And when the people saw it, they all went down on their faces, and said, The Lord, he is God, the Lord, he is God. Verse ConceptsProstrationReligious AwakeningsDuplicating WordsThe Lord Is GodThe Lord [Yahweh] Is God

Now while Ezra was making his prayer and his statement of wrongdoing, weeping and falling down before the house of God, a very great number of men and women and children out of Israel came together round him: for the people were weeping bitterly. Verse ConceptsCrowdsGesturesGuilt, Human Aspects OfHouse Of GodLargenessPrayer, As Asking GodRegretRepentance, Examples OfRevival, CorporateConviction Of SinReligious AwakeningsTearsNamed Individuals Who Prayedconfessing

And the people put questions to him, saying, What have we to do? Verse ConceptsReligious AwakeningsCrowds SeekingOne's Deeds

Now a number of the people of that town had faith in him because of the woman's witness: He has been talking to me of everything I ever did. Verse ConceptsExamples Of Faithevangelism, kinds ofRevival, CorporateReligious AwakeningsContemporary Witness To ChristChrist Knowing About PeopleThose Who Believed In ChristHard Work


And all those living in Lydda and Sharon saw him, and were turned to the Lord. Verse ConceptsConversion, examples ofReligious AwakeningsTurning To God

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And the Gentiles, hearing this, were glad and gave glory to the word of God: and those marked out by God for eternal life had faith. Verse ConceptsGentiles, In NtHappinessHonouring GodPredestined PeopleThe Call Of GodPredestination, Of PersonsReligious AwakeningsThe Gentiles ConversionThose Who Believed In ChristElect

And a number of those who had faith came and made a public statement of their sins and all their acts. Verse ConceptsSin, Accepting Forgiveness OfReligious AwakeningsSin ConfessedThings Revealedconfessing




So will we not be turned back from you; keep us in life, and we will give praise to your name. Verse ConceptsRevival, Nature OfSleep, SpiritualRevivingrevival

My soul is joined to the dust: O give me life, in keeping with your word. Verse ConceptsInferiorityBible, In Christian LivingEncouragement In LifeRevivingrevival

See how great is my desire for your orders: give me life in your righteousness. Verse ConceptsRevivingrevival

Give me life in your mercy; so that I may be ruled by the unchanging word of your mouth. Verse ConceptsLovingkindnessRevivingWanting To Keep The Commandmentsrevivalpreservation

Let my voice come to you, in your mercy; O Lord, by your decisions give me life. Verse ConceptsLovingkindnessRevivingPay Attention O God!





However, some of Asher and Manasseh and Zebulun put away their pride and came to Jerusalem. Verse ConceptsHumilityReligious Awakenings

And when the people saw it, they all went down on their faces, and said, The Lord, he is God, the Lord, he is God. Verse ConceptsProstrationReligious AwakeningsDuplicating WordsThe Lord Is GodThe Lord [Yahweh] Is God


And all those living in Lydda and Sharon saw him, and were turned to the Lord. Verse ConceptsConversion, examples ofReligious AwakeningsTurning To God

So the children of Israel gave up the worship of Baal and Astarte, and became worshippers of the Lord only. Verse ConceptsBaal Worship, HistoryGod Alone

And the people of one town go to another and say, Let us certainly go with a request for grace from the Lord, and to give worship to the Lord of armies, then I will go with you. Verse ConceptsHasteSeeking The Favour Of God

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; but not like his father and his mother, for he put away the stone pillar of Baal which his father had made. Verse ConceptsStonesObelisks

And Asa, hearing these words of Azariah, the son of Oded the prophet, took heart and put away all the disgusting things out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the towns which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he made new again the altar of the Lord in front of the covered way of the Lord's house. Verse ConceptsReformationBraveryThe Altar Of The LordDestruction Of Satan's WorksImmigrants

Then Samuel said to all Israel, If with all your hearts you would come back to the Lord, then put away all the strange gods and the Astartes from among you, and let your hearts be turned to the Lord, and be servants to him only: and he will make you safe from the hands of the Philistines. Verse ConceptsConversion, nature ofCommitment, to Goddouble mindednessReformationSyncretismDivided HeartsUnquestioning ServiceReturning To GodWhole HeartednessIndividuals Saving OthersPutting Away Other GodsServing Asherah

Then Jacob said to all his people, Put away the strange gods which are among you, and make yourselves clean, and put on a change of clothing: Verse ConceptsFamilies, Examples OfHeads Of The FamilyClean, Spiritual UseReformationIdolsEmployers, Good ExamplesForeign ThingsChanging ClothesClean ClothesPutting Away Other GodsChanging YourselfHinduism

So now, go in fear of the Lord, and be his servants with true hearts: put away the gods worshipped by your fathers across the River and in Egypt, and be servants of the Lord. Verse ConceptsCommitment, to Godethics, personalReverence, And God's NatureSincerity, In Christian LivingFear Of GodSincereityAbandoning ThingsPutting Away Other GodsServing One's Own GodsBeyond The EuphratesFear God!Serving God

Those used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods he sent out of the country, and he took away all the images which his fathers had made. Verse ConceptsBanishmentHomosexualityShrinesIdolatry, Wicked Practices OfMale ProstitutesAbandoning Idols

And all those who had control of spirits, and the wonder-workers, and the images, and the false gods, and all the disgusting things which were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah put away, so that he might give effect to the words of the agreement recorded in the book which Hilkiah the priest made discovery of in the house of the Lord. Verse ConceptsAbolitionHousehold GodsMediumsSpiritismFortunetellingSpiritism AvoidedAbandoning IdolsThe Law Given To IsraelOccultismwitchespsychics

And they got their brothers together and made themselves holy, and went in, as the king had said by the word of the Lord, to make the house of the Lord clean. Verse ConceptsCeremonies

Then I gave orders, and they made the rooms clean: and I put back in them the vessels of the house of God, with the meal offerings and the perfume. Verse Conceptsequipping, spiritualCeremoniesHouse Of GodClean Objects

And he said to him, For two thousand, three hundred evenings and mornings; then the holy place will be made clean. Verse ConceptsSix YearsRestoring ThingsRebuilding The Templecleansing


And he made a whip of small cords and put them all out of the Temple, with the sheep and the oxen, sending in all directions the small money of the changers and overturning their tables; Verse ConceptsBanksWhipsTurning Upside DownWhippingChrist Driving Out PeopleIndeterminate Sums Of Moneycatsknots

Take us back again, O God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe. Verse ConceptsRestoring NationsAfflictions, Prayer DuringRestored JoyShining FacesGod Giving Light


Give me back the joy of your salvation; let a free spirit be my support. Then will I make your ways clear to wrongdoers; and sinners will be turned to you.

Will you not give us life again, so that your people may be glad in you? Verse ConceptsRevival, Nature OfRestoring NationsSleep, SpiritualRevivingFuture Rejoicing In Godrevival

Till the spirit comes on us from on high, and the waste land becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field is changed into a wood. Verse ConceptsGift Of The Holy SpiritThe Spirit Of GodPromises Of The Holy SpiritThe Holy Spirit Giving LifeIncreasing FruitChange And GrowthSpilling Your Seed On The Groundfruitfulness

But their altars are to be overturned and their pillars broken and their images cut down: Verse ConceptsAbolitionStonesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisks

But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire. Verse ConceptsFalse GodsShrinesStonesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisksBurning Idolatrous Things

Do not go down on your faces and give worship to their gods, or do as they do; but overcome them completely, and let their pillars be broken down. Verse ConceptsAbolitionServanthood, And Worship Of GodStonesNot Imitating EvilDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisksDo Not Have Other godsHow Not To Worshipstatues

See that all the people of the land are forced out from before you, and put to destruction all their pictured stones, and all their metal images, and all their high places: Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesShrinesGoldsmithsDestruction Of Satan's Works

Take with you words, and come back to the Lord; say to him, Let there be forgiveness for all wrongdoing, so that we may take what is good, and give in payment the fruit of our lips. Verse ConceptsThe Lips Of The RighteousGrace, In OtWorship, Elements OfReturning To GodSpeaking To GodTaking Away EvilBacksliders

Then will the feeble-footed be jumping like a roe, and the voice which was stopped will be loud in song: for in the waste land streams will be bursting out, and waters in the dry places. Verse ConceptsLeapingCripplesLamenessTonguePeople JumpingRunning Water From GodDumbnessRenewedDumbDeserts Used FigurativelyDeer Etc.Deerjumping


After two days he will give us life, and on the third day he will make us get up, and we will be living before him. Verse ConceptsRevival, CorporateRestoring NationsThe Third Day Of The WeekTwo DaysLiveHope And Healingrevivalreassurance

He took away the strange gods and the image out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars he had put up on the hill of the Lord's house and in Jerusalem, and put them out of the town. Verse ConceptsReformationBuilding AltarsDestruction Of Satan's Works

Josiah took away all the disgusting things out of all the lands of the children of Israel, and made all who were in Israel servants of the Lord their God. And as long as he was living they were true to the Lord, the God of their fathers. Verse ConceptsAbolitionReformation

But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God. Verse ConceptsReformationRenewed Heart

Now when all this was over, all the men of Israel who were present went out into the towns of Judah, causing the stone pillars to be broken up and the wood pillars to be cut down, pulling down the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, till all were gone. Then all the children of Israel went back to their towns, every man to his property. Verse ConceptsAbolitionHigh PlacesLeaders, PoliticalReformationSacrifice, In OtStonesAnnihilationDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisks

And Elijah came near to all the people and said, How long will you go on balancing between two opinions? if the Lord is God, then give worship to him; but if Baal, give worship to him. And the people said not a word in answer. Then Elijah said to the people, I, even I, am the only living prophet of the Lord; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men. Now, let them give us two oxen; and let them take one for themselves, and have it cut up, and put it on the wood, but put no fire under it; I will get the other ox ready, and put it on the wood, and put no fire under it. read more.
And do you make prayers to your god, and I will make a prayer to the Lord: and it will be clear that the one who gives an answer by fire is God. And all the people in answer said, It is well said. Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, Take one ox for yourselves and get it ready first, for there are more of you; and make your prayers to your god, but put no fire under. So they took the ox which was given them, and made it ready, crying out to Baal from morning till the middle of the day, and saying, O Baal, give ear to us. But there was no voice and no answer. And they were jumping up and down before the altar they had made. And in the middle of the day, Elijah made sport of them, saying, Give louder cries, for he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or he may have gone away for some purpose, or he may be on a journey, or by chance he is sleeping and has to be made awake. So they gave loud cries, cutting themselves with knives and swords, as was their way, till the blood came streaming out all over them. And from the middle of the day they went on with their prayers till the time of the offering; but there was no voice, or any answer, or any who gave attention to them. Then Elijah said to all the people, Come near to me; and all the people came near. And he put up again the altar of the Lord which had been broken down. And Elijah took twelve stones, the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the Lord had said, Israel will be your name: And with the stones he made an altar to the name of the Lord; and he made a deep drain all round the altar, great enough to take two measures of seed. And he put the wood in order, and, cutting up the ox, put it on the wood. Then he said, Get four vessels full of water and put it on the burned offering and on the wood. And he said, Do it a second time, and they did it a second time; And he said, Do it a third time, and they did it a third time. And the water went all round the altar, till the drain was full. Then at the time of the offering, Elijah the prophet came near and said, O Lord, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be seen this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things by your order. Give me an answer, O Lord, give me an answer, so that this people may see that you are God, and that you have made their hearts come back again. Then the fire of the Lord came down, burning up the offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and drinking up the water in the drain. And when the people saw it, they all went down on their faces, and said, The Lord, he is God, the Lord, he is God. And Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal, let not one of them get away. So they took them, and Elijah made them go down to the stream Kishon, and put them to death there.

And so, when the streets of Jerusalem were getting dark before the Sabbath, I gave orders for the doors to be shut and not to be open again till after the Sabbath: and I put some of my servants by the door so that nothing might be taken in on the Sabbath day. Verse ConceptsShadowsCitiesShutting GatesDarkness Of Night

Then Samuel said, Let all Israel come to Mizpah and I will make prayer to the Lord for you. So they came together to Mizpah, and got water, draining it out before the Lord, and they took no food that day, and they said, We have done evil against the Lord. And Samuel was judge of the children of Israel in Mizpah.

Those used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods he sent out of the country, and he took away all the images which his fathers had made. Verse ConceptsBanishmentHomosexualityShrinesIdolatry, Wicked Practices OfMale ProstitutesAbandoning Idols

Then all the people of the land went to the house of Baal and had it pulled down: its altars and images were all broken to bits, and Mattan, the priest of Baal, they put to death before the altars. And the priest put overseers over the Lord's house. Verse ConceptsFalse GodsDestruction Of Satan's WorksKilling Priests

The altar of Baal was pulled down and the house of Baal was broken up and made an unclean place, as it is to this day. Verse ConceptsDefecation

And a number of those who had faith came and made a public statement of their sins and all their acts. And a great number of those who were experts in strange arts took their books and put them on the fire in front of everyone: and when the books were valued they came to fifty thousand bits of silver. So the word of the Lord was increased very greatly and was full of power.

Then the king gave orders to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and to the priests of the second order, and to the keepers of the door, to take out of the house of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal and for the Asherah and for all the stars of heaven; and he had them burned outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and took the dust of them to Beth-el Verse ConceptsAstrologyBurning Idolatrous ThingsAshes Of HumiliationServing Asherah

Then the woman put down her water-pot and went into the town, and said to the people, Come and see a man who has been talking to me of everything I ever did! Is it possible that this is the Christ? So they went out of the town and came to him. read more.
While this was taking place, the disciples were saying to Jesus, Master, take some food. But he said to them, I have food of which you have no knowledge. So the disciples said one to another, Did anyone give him food? Jesus said, My food is to do the pleasure of him who sent me and to make his work complete. You would say, Four months from now is the time of the grain-cutting. Take a look, I say to you, at the fields; they are even now white for cutting. He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together. In this the saying is a true one, One does the planting, and another gets in the grain. I sent you to get in grain which you had no hand in planting: other men did that work, and you take the reward. Now a number of the people of that town had faith in him because of the woman's witness: He has been talking to me of everything I ever did. So when the people came to him they made request to him to be among them for a time, and he was there two days. And a great number more of them came to have faith in him because of what he himself said. And they said to the woman, Now we have faith, but not because of your story: we ourselves have given ear to his words, and we are certain that he is truly the Saviour of the world.

When Annas and Caiaphas were high priests, the word of the Lord came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the waste land. And he came into all the country round about Jordan, preaching baptism as a sign of forgiveness of sin for those whose hearts were changed. As it says in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight. read more.
Every valley will be lifted up, and all the mountains and hills made low, and the twisted will be made straight, and the rough ways smooth; And all flesh will see the salvation of God. So he said to the people who went out to him for baptism: You offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come? Make clear by your acts that your hearts have been changed; and do not say to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children of Abraham. And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; and every tree which does not have good fruit will be cut down and put into the fire. And the people put questions to him, saying, What have we to do? And he made answer and said to them, He who has two coats, let him give to him who has not even one; and he who has food, let him do the same. Then tax-farmers came to him for baptism and said to him, Master, what have we to do? And he said to them, Do not make an attempt to get more money than the right amount. And men of the army put questions to him, saying, And what have we to do? And he said to them, Do no violent acts to any man, and do not take anything without right, and let your payment be enough for you.

And the Gentiles, hearing this, were glad and gave glory to the word of God: and those marked out by God for eternal life had faith. Verse ConceptsGentiles, In NtHappinessHonouring GodPredestined PeopleThe Call Of GodPredestination, Of PersonsReligious AwakeningsThe Gentiles ConversionThose Who Believed In ChristElect


And Philip went down to Samaria and was teaching them about Christ. And all the people gave attention to the words which Philip said, when they saw the signs which he did. For unclean spirits came out from those who had them, crying with a loud voice; and a number of those who were ill and broken in body were made well. read more.
And there was much joy in that town.

Let us now make an agreement with our God to put away all the wives and all their children, if it seems right to my lord and to those who go in fear of the words of our God; and let it be done in keeping with the law. Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningReverence, And God's NatureCovenant RelationshipsTremblingActual DivorcesLater Covenants With God

And Crispus, the ruler of the Synagogue, with all his family, had faith in the Lord; and a great number of the people of Corinth, hearing the word, had faith and were given baptism. Verse ConceptsBaptism, Administered ByBaptism, Features Ofevangelism, kinds ofFamilies, Examples OfBaptism, practice ofMission, Of The ChurchOrdinancesSynagogueReligious AwakeningsChristian BaptismThose Who Believed In ChristBaptism

And all those living in Lydda and Sharon saw him, and were turned to the Lord. Verse ConceptsConversion, examples ofReligious AwakeningsTurning To God

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