Thematic Bible: General reference to


Thematic Bible



Early the next morning they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented fellowship offerings. The people sat down to eat and drink, then got up to play.

When they were drunk, they said, “Bring Samson here to entertain us.” So they brought Samson from prison, and he entertained them. They had him stand between the pillars.

Then Abner said to Joab, “Let’s have the young men get up and compete in front of us.”

“Let them get up,” Joab replied.

They improvise songs to the sound of the harp
and invent their own musical instruments like David.





“This is what the Lord says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night so that day and night cease to come at their regular time,



even if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience, and He knows all things.



You know when I sit down and when I stand up;
You understand my thoughts from far away.



and again, The Lord knows that the reasonings of the wise are meaningless.


Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you. He will close the sky, and there will be no rain; the land will not yield its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land the Lord is giving you.

I will make it a wasteland.
It will not be pruned or weeded;
thorns and briers will grow up.
I will also give orders to the clouds
that rain should not fall on it.

He led you through the great and terrible wilderness with its poisonous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty land where there was no water. He brought water out of the flint-like rock for you.

When the skies are shut and there is no rain,
because they have sinned against You,
and they pray toward this place
and praise Your name,
and they turn from their sins
because You are afflicting them,

They stopped asking, “Where is the Lord
who brought us from the land of Egypt,
who led us through the wilderness,
through a land of deserts and ravines,
through a land of drought and darkness,
a land no one traveled through
and where no one lived?”

The Lord will turn the rain of your land into falling dust; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.




even if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience, and He knows all things.



You know when I sit down and when I stand up;
You understand my thoughts from far away.



and again, The Lord knows that the reasonings of the wise are meaningless.



even if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience, and He knows all things.



You know when I sit down and when I stand up;
You understand my thoughts from far away.



and again, The Lord knows that the reasonings of the wise are meaningless.


Then he said to the priests, “Take the ark of the covenant and go on ahead of the people.” So they carried the ark of the covenant and went ahead of them.


Then he sent out young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed bulls as fellowship offerings to the Lord.

The priests went to the entrance of the Lord’s temple to cleanse it. They took all the unclean things they found in the Lord’s sanctuary to the courtyard of the Lord’s temple. Then the Levites received them and took them outside to the Kidron Valley.

Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard about everything that God had done for Moses and His people Israel, and how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt.

The priests and Levites from all their regions throughout Israel took their stand with Rehoboam,


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