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Thematic Bible



The sons of Asher: Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah and Serah, their sister. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith. And Heber was the father of Japhlet and Shomer and Hotham and Shua, their sister. read more.
And the sons of Japhlet: Pasach and Bimhal and Ashvath. These are the sons of Japhlet. And the sons of Shomer: Ahi and Rohgah, Jehubbah and Aram. And the sons of Hotham, his brother: Zophah and Imna and Shelesh and Amal. The sons of Zophah: Suah and Harnepher and Shual and Beri and Imrah, Bezer and Hod and Shamma and Shilshah and Ithran and Beera. And the sons of Jether: Jephunneh and Pispah and Ara. And the sons of Ulla: Arah and Hanniel and Rizia. All these were the children of Asher, heads of their families, specially strong men of war, chiefs of the rulers. They were recorded in the army for war, twenty-six thousand men in number.

And there was one, Anna, a woman prophet, the daughter of Phanuel, of the family of Asher (she was very old, and after seven years of married life Verse ConceptsProphetessSeven YearsAgeWaiting Till Marriagemumsmarraigematrimonyvirginity

And Job's three friends had word of all this evil which had come on him. And they came every one from his place, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. So they came together to a meeting-place, in order that they might go and make clear to Job their grief for him, and give him comfort. Verse ConceptsBad FriendsGood FriendsLove, For One AnotherSympathyVisitingComfort, Of FriendsCondolenceVisiting Of The SickVisitationThree MenMeeting PeopleBest FriendsLosing A FriendLosing FriendsTrue Friends

So the Lord sent Hadad the Edomite to make trouble for Solomon: he was of the king's seed in Edom. Verse ConceptsConfrontationenemies, of Israel and JudahThe Kingdom Of Others

Now Hadad was very pleasing to Pharaoh, so that he gave him the sister of his wife, Tahpenes the queen, for his wife.

Then the king said to Doeg, You are to put the priests to death. And Doeg the Edomite, turning on the priests and attacking them, put to death that day eighty-five men who took up the ephod. Verse ConceptsCriminalsephodsLinenThe Number EightyEighties

Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea, the son of Nun. Verse Conceptsexploring

Now after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, the word of the Lord came to Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses' helper, saying, Verse Conceptslosing a loved oneDeath Of A Family MemberDeath Of A ChildDeath Of Loved OneLoss Of A Loved Onebridges

And Zichri, a great fighting-man of Ephraim, put to death Maaseiah, the king's son, and Azrikam, the controller of his house, and Elkanah, who was second in authority to the king.

And after him, Abdon, the son of Hillel, the Pirathonite, was judge of Israel. He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons who went on seventy young asses; and he was judge of Israel for eight years. And Abdon, the son of Hillel, came to his death, and his body was put to rest in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill-country of the Amalekites.

Who put Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, to death? did not a woman send a great stone down on him from the wall, putting him to death at Thebez? why did you go so near the wall? Then say to him, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is among the dead. Verse ConceptsMillstonesBeing Killed By A RockKilling Named Individuals

And David sent to Joab saying, Send Uriah the Hittite to me. And Joab sent Uriah to David.

Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, Who will go down with me to the tents of Saul? And Abishai said, I will go down with you.

In the rock in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham got from Ephron the Hittite, to be his resting-place. Verse ConceptsThe Cave Of Machpelah

And Baasha, the son of Ahijah, of the family of Issachar, made a secret design against him, attacking him at Gibbethon, a town of the Philistines; for Nadab and the armies of Israel were making war on Gibbethon. Verse ConceptsConspiraciesKilling KingsThe Nations Attacked

Now after Abimelech, Tola, the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, became the saviour of Israel; he was living in Shamir in the hill-country of Ephraim. Verse ConceptsDefenseRescueTribes Of Israelgrandfathers

Then Samuel took the bottle of oil, and put the oil on him there among his brothers: and from that day the spirit of the Lord came on David with power. So Samuel went back to Ramah. Verse ConceptsDavid, Early LifeDavid, Rise OfAnointing With OilCeremoniesKingsKingship, HumanOilPower, HumanSymbolsThe Act Of AnointingAnointing

And the Lord said to Samuel, How long will you go on sorrowing for Saul, seeing that I have put him from his place as king over Israel? Take oil in your vessel and go; I will send you to Jesse, the Beth-lehemite: for I have got a king for myself among his sons. Verse ConceptsCivil authoritiesHornsLeaders, PoliticalMissionaries, Task OfRejection Of God, Results OfHorns Of AnimalsAnointing KingsGod Abandoning IndividualsBefore People ActMourning In RegretSaul And DavidRejectionLeadership Qualitiesgrievingsaul

And the Lord said to Samuel, How long will you go on sorrowing for Saul, seeing that I have put him from his place as king over Israel? Take oil in your vessel and go; I will send you to Jesse, the Beth-lehemite: for I have got a king for myself among his sons. Verse ConceptsCivil authoritiesHornsLeaders, PoliticalMissionaries, Task OfRejection Of God, Results OfHorns Of AnimalsAnointing KingsGod Abandoning IndividualsBefore People ActMourning In RegretSaul And DavidRejectionLeadership Qualitiesgrievingsaul

And Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David. Verse ConceptsDavid, Rise Of

Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brothers of David; of Issachar, Omri, the son of Michael;

And King David said, Send for Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king. And the king said to them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and put Solomon my son on my beast, yes, mine, and take him down to Gihon; And there let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet put the holy oil on him to make him king over Israel; and sounding the horn say, Long life to King Solomon! read more.
Then come up after him and he will come in and take his place on the seat of my kingdom; for he is to be king in my place, and I have given orders that he is to be ruler over Israel and over Judah. And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, answering the king, said, So be it: and may the Lord, the God of my lord the king, say so. As the Lord has been with my lord the king, even so may he be with Solomon and make the seat of his authority greater than that of my lord King David. So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, went down and put Solomon on King David's beast and took him to Gihon. And Zadok the priest took the vessel of oil out of the Tent, and put the holy oil on Solomon. And when the horn was sounded, all the people said, Long life to King Solomon!

And when he was purposing to put shame on Israel, Jonathan, the son of Shimei, David's brother, put him to death.

But my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit in him, and has been true to me with all his heart, him I will take into that land into which he went, and his seed will have it for their heritage. Verse ConceptsExamples Of FaithFaithfulness, Examples OfLoyaltyReliabilitySpirit, Emotional Aspects OfFollowing GodServant Leadership

And he who made his offering on the first day was Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:

Then the house of Zabdi came forward man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.

And Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed;

And Naomi had a relation of her husband, a man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz. Verse ConceptsClansRelativesWealthy PeopleRelationships And DatingFamily Conflict

Then Jotham straight away went in flight to Beer, and was living there for fear of his brother Abimelech. Verse ConceptsFugitivesEscaping From Peoplebeer

Then he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and put his brothers, the seventy sons of Jerubbaal, to death on the same stone; however, Jotham, the youngest, kept himself safe by going away to a secret place. Verse ConceptsCriminalsThe Youngest ChildBeing Killed By A RockHiding From PeopleSole SurvivorsSeventiesKilling BrothersHalf brothersanniversary

Now Jotham, on hearing of it, went to the top of Mount Gerizim, and crying out with a loud voice said to them, Give ear to me, you townsmen of Shechem, so that God may give ear to you. Verse ConceptsPay Attention To People!Will God Pay Attention?

Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, came forward: their names are Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah. They came before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs and all the people at the door of the Tent of meeting, and said, Death overtook our father in the waste land; he was not among those who were banded together with Korah against the Lord; but death came to him in his sin; and he had no sons. read more.
Why is the name of our father to be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give us a heritage among our father's brothers. So Moses put their cause before the Lord. And the Lord said to Moses, What the daughters of Zelophehad say is right: certainly you are to give them a heritage among their father's brothers: and let the property which would have been their father's go to them.

Now when David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi, the son of Nahash of Rabbah, the Ammonite, and Machir, the son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

And Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, By the living Lord, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word. Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfBaal Worship, HistoryElijah, Prophecies OfElijah, Life Ofdrought, physicaldewLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityPrayerfulnessRainWeather, As God's JudgmentMiracles Of ElijahCrowsImmigrants

And he said to him, O Lord, how may I be the saviour of Israel? See, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house. Verse ConceptsExcusesClansdoubtersInferiorityMinistry, Qualifications ForModestyWeakness, PhysicalLeadershipHumility, Examples OfThe Youngest ChildWithout StrengthDepressiongideon

And after him came Jair the Gileadite, who was judge over Israel for twenty-two years. Verse Concepts20 To 30 YearsJudging Israel

He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; he was full of wisdom and knowledge and an expert worker in brass. He came to King Solomon and did all his work for him. Verse ConceptsBrassActual Widowscraftsmanship

And she sent for Barak, the son of Abinoam, from Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him, Has not the Lord, the God of Israel, given orders saying, Go and get your force into line in Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun? Verse ConceptsDeborahTens Of Thousands

Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Pallu, the son of Reuben, made themselves ready, Verse ConceptsRevolts

And the sons of Eliab: Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram. These are the same Dathan and Abiram who had a place in the meeting of the people, who together with Korah made an outcry against Moses and Aaron and against the Lord: And they went down into the open mouth of the earth, together with Korah, when death overtook him and all his band; at the time when two hundred and fifty men were burned in the fire, and they became a sign.

Adina, the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, and thirty with him; Verse ConceptsThirty

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