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Genesis 1

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1 God creates heaven and earth;
3 the light;
6 the firmament;
9 separates the dry land;
14 forms the sun moon and stars;
20 fishes and fowls;
24 cattle wild beasts and creeping things;
26 creates man in his own image blesses him;
29 grants the fruits of the earth for food.

Genesis 2

1 The first Sabbath.
4 Further details concerning the manner of creation.
8 The planting of the garden of Eden and its situation;
15 man is placed in it; and the tree of knowledge forbidden.
18 The animals are named by Adam.
21 The making of woman and the institution of marriage.

Genesis 3

1 The serpent deceives Eve.
6 Both she and Adam transgress the divine command and fall into sin.
8 God arraigns them.
14 The serpent is cursed.
15 The promised seed.
16 The punishment of mankind.
21 Their first clothing.
22 Their expulsion from paradise.

Genesis 4

1 The birth occupation and offerings of Cain and Abel.
8 Cain murders his brother Abel.
11 The curse of Cain.
17 Has a son called Enoch and builds a city which he calls after his name.
18 His descendants with Lamech and his two wives.
25 The birth of Seth
26 and Enos.

Genesis 5

1 Recapitulation of the creation of man.
3 The genealogy age and death of the patriarchs from Adam to Noah.
22 Enoch's godliness and translation into Heaven.
25 The family line of Methuselah to Noah and his sons

Genesis 6

1 The wickedness of the world which provoked God's wrath.
8 Noah finds grace.
9 His family line
14 The order form dimensions and building of the ark.

Genesis 7

1 Noah his family and the living creatures enter the ark.
6 The flood begins.
17 The increase of the flood for forty days.
21 All flesh is destroyed by it.
24 Its duration of 150 days.

Genesis 8

1 God remembers Noah and calms the waters.
4 The ark rests on Ararat.
6 Noah sends forth a raven and then a dove.
13 Noah being commanded goes forth from the ark.
20 He builds an altar and offers sacrifices
21 which God accepts and promises to curse the earth no more.

Genesis 9

1 God blesses Noah and his sons and grants them flesh for food.
4 Blood and murder are forbidden.
8 God's covenant of which the rainbow was constituted a pledge.
18 Noah's family replenishes the world.
20 Noah plants a vineyard
21 Is drunken and mocked by his son;
25 Curses Canaan;
26 Blesses Shem;
27 Prays for Japheth and dies.

Genesis 10

1 The generations of Noah.
2 Japheth.
6 Ham.
8 Nimrod becomes the first monarch; the descendants of Canaan.
21 The sons of Shem.

Genesis 11

1 One language in the world.
2 The building of Babel.
5 It is interrupted by the confusion of tongues and the builders dispersed.
10 The generations of Shem.
27 The generations of Terah the father of Abram.
31 Terah with Abram and Lot move from Ur to Haran.

Genesis 12

1 God calls Abram and blesses him with a promise of Christ.
4 He departs with Lot from Haran and comes to Canaan.
6 He journeys through Canaan
7 which is promised to him in a vision.
10 He is driven by famine into Egypt.
11 Fear makes him feign his wife to be his sister.
14 Pharaoh having taken her from him is compelled to restore her.
18 Pharaoh reproves Abram whom he dismisses.

Genesis 13

1 Abram and Lot return with great riches out of Egypt.
6 Strife arises between Abram's herdsmen and those of Lot.
8 Abram allows Lot to choose his part of the country
10 and Lot goes toward Sodom.
14 God renews his promise to Abram.
18 He moves to Hebron and there builds an altar.

Genesis 14

1 The battle of four kings against the king of Sodom and his allies.
12 Lot is taken prisoner.
14 Abram rescues him.
17 Melchizedek blesses Abram who gives him tithes.
21 Abram restores the rest of the spoil to the king of Sodom.

Genesis 15

1 God encourages Abram who asks for an heir.
4 God promises him a son and a multiplying of his seed.
6 Abram is justified by faith.
7 Canaan is promised again
9 and confirmed by a sign and a vision
18 prophetic of the condition of his posterity till brought out of Egypt.

Genesis 16

1 Sarai being barren gives Hagar to Abram.
4 Hagar being afflicted for despising her mistress runs away.
7 An angel commands her to return and submit herself
10 promises her a numerous posterity
12 and shows their character and condition.
13 Hagar names the place and returns to Sarai.
15 Ishmael is born.
16 The age of Abram.

Genesis 17

1 God renews the covenant with Abram
5 and changes his name to Abraham in token of a greater blessing.
9 Circumcision is instituted.
15 Sarai's name is changed to Sarah and she is blessed.
17 Isaac is promised and the time of his birth fixed.
23 Abraham and Ishmael are circumcised.

Genesis 18

1 The Lord appears to Abraham who entertains angels.
9 Sarah is reproved for laughing at the promise of a son.
16 The destruction of Sodom is revealed to Abraham.
23 Abraham makes intercession for its inhabitants.

Genesis 19

1 Lot entertains two angels.
4 The vicious Sodomites are smitten with blindness.
12 Lot is warned and in vain warns his sons-in-law.
15 He is directed to flee to the mountains but obtains leave to go into Zoar.
24 Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed.
26 Lot's wife looks back and becomes a pillar of salt.
29 Lot dwells in a cave.
31 The incestuous origin of Moab and Ammon.

Genesis 20

1 Abraham sojourns at Gerar.
2 Denies his wife who is taken by Abimelech.
3 Abimelech is reproved for her in a dream.
9 He rebukes Abraham.
14 Restores Sarah;
16 and reproves her.
17 Abimelech and his family are healed at Abraham's prayer.

Genesis 21

1 Isaac is born and circumcised.
6 Sarah's joy.
8 Isaac is weaned.
9 Hagar and Ishmael sent away.
15 Hagar in distress.
17 The angel relieves and comforts her.
23 Abimelech's covenant with Abraham at Beersheba.

Genesis 22

1 Abraham is tested with the command to offer Isaac.
3 He gives proof of his faith and obedience.
11 The angel prevents him.
13 Isaac is exchanged for a ram.
14 The place is called Jehovah-jireh.
15 Abraham is again blessed.
20 The generations of Nahor unto Rebekah.

Genesis 23

1 The age and death of Sarah.
3 The purchase of the field and cave of Machpelah;
19 where Sarah is buried.

Genesis 24

1 Abraham swears his servant.
10 The servant's journey.
12 His prayer.
14 His sign.
15 Rebekah meets him;
18 fulfils his sign;
22 receives jewels;
23 shows her kindred;
25 and invites him home.
26 The servant blesses God.
29 Laban entertains him.
34 The servant shows his message.
50 Laban and Bethuel approve it.
58 Rebekah consents to go and departs.
62 Isaac meets and marries her.

Genesis 25

1 The sons of Abraham by Keturah.
5 The division of his goods.
7 His age death and burial.
11 God blesses Isaac.
12 The generations of Ishmael.
17 His age and death.
19 Isaac prays for Rebekah being barren.
22 The children strive in her womb.
24 The birth of Esau and Jacob.
27 Their different characters and pursuits.
29 Esau sells his birthright.

Genesis 26

1 Isaac because of famine sojourns in Gerar and the Lord blesses him.
7 He is reproved by Abimelech for denying his wife.
12 He grows rich and the Philistines envy his prosperity.
18 He digs wells.
23 God appears to him at Beersheba and blesses him;
26 and Abimelech makes a covenant with him.
34 Esau's wives.

Genesis 27

1 Isaac sends Esau for venison.
6 Rebekah instructs Jacob to obtain the blessing.
14 Jacob feigning to be Esau obtains it.
30 Esau brings venison.
33 Isaac trembles.
34 Esau complains and by importunity obtains a blessing.
41 He threatens Jacob's life.
42 Rebekah disappoints him by sending Jacob away.

Genesis 28

1 Isaac blesses Jacob and sends him to Padan-aram.
6 Esau marries Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael.
10 Jacob journeys and has a vision of a ladder.
18 The stone of Bethel.
20 Jacob's vow.

Genesis 29

1 Jacob comes to the well of Haran.
9 He becomes acquainted with Rachel.
13 Laban entertains him.
18 Jacob covenants for Rachel.
23 He is deceived by Laban with Leah.
28 He marries also Rachel and serves for her seven years more.
32 Leah bears Reuben;
33 Simeon;
34 Levi;
35 and Judah.

Genesis 30

1 Rachel in grief for her barrenness gives Bilhah her maid unto Jacob.
5 Bilhah bears Dan and Naphtali.
9 Leah gives Zilpah her maid who bears Gad and Asher.
14 Reuben finds mandrakes
15 with which Leah buys her husband's company of Rachel.
17 Leah bears Issachar Zebulun and Dinah.
22 Rachel bears Joseph.
25 Jacob desires to depart.
27 Laban detains him on a new agreement.
37 Jacob's policy whereby he becomes rich.

Genesis 31

1 Jacob displeased with the envy of Laban and his sons departs secretly.
19 Rachel steals her father's household gods.
22 Laban pursues after him and complains of the wrong.
34 Rachel's plan to hide the images.
36 Jacob's complaint of Laban.
43 The covenant of Laban and Jacob at Galeed.

Genesis 32

1 Jacob's vision at Mahanaim.
3 His message to Esau.
6 He is afraid of Esau's coming.
9 He prays for deliverance.
13 He sends a present to Esau and passes the brook Jabbok.
24 He wrestles with an angel at Peniel where he is called Israel.
31 He halts.

Genesis 33

1 Jacob and Esau's meeting; and Esau's departure.
17 Jacob comes to Succoth.
18 At Shechem he buys a field and builds an altar called El Elohe Israel.

Genesis 34

1 Dinah is ravished by Shechem.
4 He requests to marry her.
13 The sons of Jacob offer the condition of circumcision to the Shechemites.
20 Hamor and Shechem persuade them to accept it.
25 The sons of Jacob upon that advantage slay them and spoil their city.
30 Jacob reproves Simeon and Levi.

Genesis 35

1 God commands Jacob to go to Bethel.
2 He purges his house of idols.
6 He builds an altar at Bethel.
8 Deborah dies at Allon Bacuth.
9 God blesses Jacob at Bethel.
10 Jacob Named Israel.
16 Rachel travails of Benjamin and dies in the way to Edar.
22 Reuben lies with Bilhah.
23 The sons of Jacob.
27 Jacob comes to Isaac at Hebron.
28 The age death and burial of Isaac.

Genesis 36

1 Esau's three wives.
6 His removal to mount Seir.
9 His sons.
15 The dukes which descended of his sons.
20 The sons and dukes of Seir the Horite.
24 Anah finds mules.
31 The kings of Edom.
40 The dukes that descended of Esau.

Genesis 37

1 Joseph is loved by Jacob but hated by his brothers.
5 His dreams and the interpretation.
12 Jacob sends him to his brothers who counsel to slay him.
21 At Reuben's desire they cast him into a pit;
25 and afterwards sell him to the Ishmaelites;
29 while Ruben grieves at not finding him.
31 His coat covered with blood is sent to Jacob who mourns him inordinately.
36 Joseph is brought to Egypt and sold to Potiphar.

Genesis 38

1 Judah begets Er Onan and Shelah.
6 Er's marriage with Tamar and death.
8 The trespass of Onan.
11 Tamar is reserved for Shelah.
12 Judah's wife dies.
13 Tamar deceives Judah.
27 She bears twins Pharez and Zarah.

Genesis 39

1 Joseph is bought by Potiphar and preferred in the family.
7 He resists temptation by Potiphar's Wife.
13 He is falsely accused by her.
20 He is cast into prison.
21 God is with him there and he is advanced by the keeper of prison.

Genesis 40

1 The chief butler and baker of Pharaoh are also imprisoned.
5 Joseph interprets their dreams.
20 They are accomplished according to his interpretation.
23 The ingratitude of the butler in forgetting Joseph.

Genesis 41

1 Pharaoh has two dreams.
9 Joseph interprets them.
33 He gives Pharaoh counsel and is highly advanced and married.
46 The seven years of plenty.
50 He begets children.
53 The famine begins.

Genesis 42

1 Jacob sends his ten sons to buy grain in Egypt.
16 They are imprisoned by Joseph as spies.
18 They are set at liberty on condition to bring Benjamin.
21 They have remorse for Joseph.
24 Simeon is kept for a pledge.
25 They return with grain and their money.
29 Their relation to Jacob.
36 Jacob refuses to send Benjamin.

Genesis 43

1 Jacob is persuaded to send Benjamin.
15 Joseph entertains his brothers.
19 They discover their fears to the steward.
26 Joseph makes them a feast.

Genesis 44

1 Joseph's policy to stay his brothers.
6 The silver cup is found in Benjamin's sack.
14 They are brought before Joseph.
18 Judah's humble supplication to Joseph.

Genesis 45

1 Joseph makes himself known to his brothers.
5 He comforts them in God's providence.
9 He sends for his father.
16 Pharaoh confirms it.
21 Joseph furnishes then for their journey.
25 Jacob is revived with the news.

Genesis 46

1 Jacob is comforted by God at Beersheba.
5 Thence he with his company goes into Egypt.
8 The number of his family that went into Egypt.
28 Joseph meets Jacob.
31 He instructs his brothers how to answer Pharaoh.

Genesis 47

1 Joseph presents his father and five of his brothers before Pharaoh.
11 He gives them habitation and maintenance.
13 He gets the Egyptian's money;
16 their cattle;
18 and their lands except the priests' to Pharaoh.
23 He restores the land for a fifth.
28 Jacob's age.
29 He swears Joseph to bury him with his fathers.

Genesis 48

1 Joseph with his sons visits his sick father.
2 Jacob strengthens himself to bless them.
3 He repeats God's promise.
5 He takes Ephraim and Manasseh as his own sons.
7 He tells Joseph of his mother's grave.
8 He blesses Ephraim and Manasseh.
17 He prefers the younger before the elder.
21 He prophesies their return to Canaan.

Genesis 49

1 Jacob calls his sons to bless them.
3 Their blessing in particular.
29 He charges them about his burial.
33 He dies.

Genesis 50

1 The mourning for Jacob.
4 Joseph gets leave of Pharaoh to go to bury him.
7 The funeral.
15 Joseph comforts his brothers who crave his pardon.
22 His age.
23 He sees the third generation of his sons.
24 He prophesies unto his brothers of their return.
25 He takes an oath of them concerning his bones.
26 He dies and is put into a coffin.

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Exodus 1

1 The children of Israel after Joseph's death increase.
8 The more they are oppressed by a new king the more they multiply.
15 The godliness of the midwives in saving the male children alive.
22 Pharaoh commands the male children to be cast into the river

Exodus 2

1 Moses is born and placed in a basket in the reeds of Nile.
5 He is found and brought up by Pharaoh's daughter;
7 who employs his mother to nurse him.
11 He kills an Egyptian.
13 He reproves a Hebrew.
15 He flees into Midian and marries Zipporah.
22 Gershom is born.
23 God respects the Israelites' cry.

Exodus 3

1 Moses keeps Jethro's flock.
2 God appears to him in a burning bush.
9 He sends him to deliver Israel.
13 The name of God.
15 His message to Israel and Pharaoh whose opposition is foretold.
20 He is assured of Israel's deliverance.

Exodus 4

1 Moses's rod is turned into a serpent.
6 His hand is leprous.
10 He loathes his calling.
13 Aaron is appointed to assist him.
18 Moses departs from Jethro.
21 God's message to Pharaoh.
24 Zipporah circumcises her son.
27 Aaron is sent to meet Moses.
29 The people believe them.

Exodus 5

1 Pharaoh chides Moses and Aaron for their message.
6 He increases the Israelites' task.
16 He ignores their complaints.
19 They cry out to Moses and Aaron.
22 Moses complains to God.

Exodus 6

1 God renews his promise by his name JEHOVAH
9 Moses vainly attempts to encourage the Israelites
10 He and Aaron are again sent to Pharaoh
14 Genealogies of Reuben Simeon and Levi of whom came Moses and Aaron
26 The history resumed

Exodus 7

1 Moses and Aaron are encouraged to go again to Pharaoh
8 Aaron's rod is turned into a serpent
11 The sorcerers do the like; but their rods are swallowed up by Aaron's
13 Pharaoh's heart is hardened
14 God's message to Pharaoh
19 The river is turned into blood; and the consequent distress of the Egyptians

Exodus 8

1 Frogs are sent
8 Pharaoh complains to Moses who by prayer removes them
16 The dust is turned into lice which the magicians could not do
20 The plague of flies
25 Pharaoh inclines to let the people go but yet is hardened

Exodus 9

1 The plague on livestock
8 The plague of boils
13 The message of Moses about the hail
22 The plague of hail
27 Pharaoh pleads with Moses but yet is hardened

Exodus 10

1 God threatens to send locusts
7 Pharaoh moved by his servants inclines to let the Israelites go
12 The plague of the locusts
16 Pharaoh entreats Moses
21 The plague of darkness
24 Pharaoh again entreats Moses but yet is hardened

Exodus 11

1 God's message to the Israelites to borrow jewels of their neighbors
4 Moses threatens Pharaoh with the death the firstborn

Exodus 12

1 The beginning of the year is changed
3 The Passover is instituted
11 The import of the rite of the Passover
15 Unleavened bread
29 The firstborn are slain
31 The Israelites are driven out of the land
37 They come to Succoth
41 The time of their sojourning
43 The ordinance of the Passover

Exodus 13

1 The firstborn are sanctified to God
3 The memorial of the Passover is commanded
11 The firstborn of man and beast are set apart
17 The Israelites go out of Egypt and carry Joseph's bones with them.
20 They come to Etham
21 God guides them by a pillar of a cloud and a pillar of fire

Exodus 14

1 God instructs the Israelites in their journey
5 Pharaoh pursues after them
10 The Israelites murmur
13 Moses comforts them
15 God instructs Moses
19 The cloud removes behind the camp
21 The Israelites pass through the Red sea which drowns the Egyptians

Exodus 15

1 The song of Moses Miriam and Israel on their deliverance
22 The people want water in the desert
23 The waters at Marah are bitter
24 they murmur
25 Moses prays and sweetens the waters by God's direction
27 They encamp at Elim where are twelve wells and seventy palm trees

Exodus 16

1 The Israelites come to Sin and murmur for want of bread
4 God promises them bread and meat from heaven and they are rebuked
13 Quail and manna are sent
16 The ordering of manna
25 It was not to be found on the Sabbath
32 An omer of it is preserved

Exodus 17

1 The people murmur for water to Rephidim
6 God send them for water to the rock in Horeb
7 The place is called Massah and Meribah
8 Amalek is overcome by Joshua while Moses holds up his hand
14 Amalek is doomed to destruction; and Moses builds the altar Jehovah-nissi

Exodus 18

1 Jethro brings his wife and two sons to Moses
7 Moses entertains him and relates the goodness of the Lord
9 Jethro rejoices blesses God and offers sacrifice
13 He gives good counsel which is accepted
27 Jethro departs

Exodus 19

1 The people arrive at Sinai
3 God's message by Moses unto the people out of the mount
8 The people are prepared against the third day for the giving of the law
12 The mountain must not be touched
16 The fearful presence of God upon the mount

Exodus 20

1 The ten commandments are spoken by Jehovah
18 The people are afraid but Moses comforts them
21 Idolatry is forbidden
23 Of what sort the altar should be

Exodus 21

1 Laws for men servants
5 For the servant whose ear is bored
7 For women servants
12 For manslaughter
16 For kidnappers
17 For cursers of parents
18 For smiters
22 For a hurt by chance
28 For an ox that gores
33 For him who is an occasion of harm

Exodus 22

1 Of Theft
5 Of damage
7 Of trespasses
14 Of borrowing
16 Of fornication
18 Of witchcraft
19 Of bestiality
20 Of idolatry
21 Of strangers widows and fatherless
25 Of usury
26 Of pledges
28 Of reverence to magistrates
29 Of the first fruits
31 Of torn flesh

Exodus 23

1 Of slander false witness and partiality
4 Of charitableness
6 Of justice in judgment
8 Of taking bribes
9 Of oppressing a stranger
10 Of the year of rest
12 Of the Sabbath
13 Of idolatry
14 Of the three feasts
18 Of the blood and the fat of the sacrifice
20 An angel is promised with a blessing if they obey him

Exodus 24

1 Moses is called up into the mountain
3 The people promise obedience
4 Moses builds an altar and twelve pillars.
6 He sprinkles the blood of the covenant
9 The glory of God appears
14 Aaron and Hur have the charge of the people
15 Moses goes into the mountain where he continues forty days and forty nights.

Exodus 25

1 What the Israelites were to offer for the building of the tabernacle
10 The dimensions of the ark
17 The mercy seat with the cherubim
23 The table of show bread with the furniture thereof
31 The golden candlestick with the instruments thereof

Exodus 26

1 The ten curtains of the tabernacle
7 The eleven curtains of goats' hair the covering of rams' and badgers' skins.
15 The boards of the tabernacle with their sockets and bars
31 The veil for the ark
36 The hanging for the door

Exodus 27

1 The altar of burnt offering with the vessels thereof
9 The court of the tabernacle enclosed with hangings and pillars
18 The measure of the court and the furniture of brass
20 The oil for the lamp

Exodus 28

1 Aaron and his sons are set apart for the priest's office
2 Holy garments are appointed
6 The ephod and girdle
15 The breast-plate with twelve precious stones
30 The Urim and Thummim
31 The robe of the ephod with pomegranates and bells
36 The plate of the mitre
39 The embroidered coat
40 The garments for Aaron's sons

Exodus 29

1 The sacrifice and ceremonies of consecrating the priests and the altar
38 The continual burnt offerings
45 God's promise to dwell among the children of Israel

Exodus 30

1 The altar of incense
11 The ransom of souls
17 The bronze basin
22 The holy anointing oil
34 The composition of the incense

Exodus 31

1 Bezaleel and Aholiah are appointed for the work of the tabernacle
12 The observation of the Sabbath is again commanded
18 Moses receives the two tablets

Exodus 32

1 The people in the absence of Moses caused Aaron to make a calf
7 God informs Moses who intercedes for Israel and prevails
15 Moses comes down with the tablets
19 He breaks them
20 He destroys the calf
22 Aaron's excuse for himself
25 Moses causes the idolaters to be slain
30 He prays for the people

Exodus 33

1 The Lord refuses to go as he had promised with the people
4 The people mourn there
7 The tabernacle is removed out of the camp
9 The Lord talks familiarly with Moses
12 Moses prevails with God and desires to see his glory

Exodus 34

1 The tablets are replaced
5 The name of the Lord proclaimed
8 Moses entreats God to go with them
10 God makes a covenant with them repeating certain duties
28 Moses after forty days on the mount comes down with the tablets
29 His face is radiant and he covers it with a veil

Exodus 35

1 The Sabbath
4 The free gifts for the tabernacle
20 The readiness of the people to offer
30 Bezaleel and Aholiab are called to the work

Exodus 36

1 The offerings are delivered to the workmen
4 The generosity of the people is restrained
8 The curtains with cherubim
14 The curtains of goats' hair
19 The covering of skins
20 The boards with their sockets
31 The bars
35 The veil
37 The hanging for the door

Exodus 37

1 The ark and mercy seat with cherubim made
10 The table of showbread with its vessels
17 The candlestick with its lamps and instruments
25 The altar of incense
29 The anointing oil and sweet incense

Exodus 38

1 The altar of burnt offering
8 The laver of brass
9 The court and its hangings
21 The sum of what the people offered and the use to which it was applied

Exodus 39

1 The cloths of service and holy garments.
2 The ephod
8 The breast-plate
22 The robe of the ephod
27 The coats mitre and girdle of fine linen
30 The plate of the holy crown
32 All is finished reviewed and approved by Moses

Exodus 40

1 The tabernacle is commanded to be reared anointed and consecrated
13 Aaron and his sons to be sanctified
16 Moses performs all things accordingly
34 A cloud covers the tabernacle

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Leviticus 1

1 The law of burnt offerings
3 of the herd
10 of the flocks
14 of the fowls

Leviticus 2

1 The meat offering with oil and incense
4 either baked in the oven
5 or on a plate
7 or in a frying pan
12 The first fruits not to be burnt on the altar
13 Salt to be used with every offering
14 The offering of first fruits

Leviticus 3

1 The peace offering of the herd
6 whether a sheep
7 whether a lamb
12 or a goat
17 A prohibition to eat fat or blood

Leviticus 4

1 The sin offering of ignorance
3 for the priest
13 for the congregation
22 for the ruler
27 for any of the people

Leviticus 5

1 He who sins in concealing his knowledge
2 in touching an unclean thing
4 or in making an oath
6 His trespass offering of the flock
7 of fowls
11 or of flour
14 The trespass offering in sacrilege
17 and in sins of ignorance

Leviticus 6

1 The trespass offering for sins done wittingly
8 The law of the burnt offering
14 and of the meat offering
19 The offering at the consecration of a priest
24 The law of the sin offering

Leviticus 7

1 The law of the trespass offering
11 and of the peace offering
12 whether it be for a thanksgiving
16 or a vow or a free will offering
22 the fat and the blood are forbidden
28 The priests' portion in the peace offerings
35 The whole summed up

Leviticus 8

1 Moses consecrates Aaron and his sons
14 Their sin offering
18 Their burnt offering
22 The ram of consecration
31 The place and time of their consecration

Leviticus 9

1 The first offerings of Aaron for himself and the people
8 The sin offering
12 and the burn offering for himself
15 the offerings for the people
23 Moses and Aaron bless the people
24 Fire comes from the Lord upon the altar

Leviticus 10

1 Aadab and Abihu for offering strange fire are burnt by fire
6 Aaron and his sons are forbidden to mourn for them
8 The priests are forbidden wine when they are to go into the tabernacle
12 The law of eating the holy things
16 Aaron's excuse for transgressing thereof

Leviticus 11

1 What animals may be eaten
4 and what may not be eaten
9 What fishes
13 What fowls
29 The creeping things which are unclean

Leviticus 12

1 The purification of a woman after childbirth
6 Her offerings for her purifying

Leviticus 13

1 The laws whereby the priest is to be guided in discerning the leprosy.

Leviticus 14

1 The rites and sacrifices in cleansing the leper
33 The signs of leprosy in a house
48 The cleansing of that house

Leviticus 15

1 The uncleanness of men in their issues
13 The cleansing of them
19 The uncleanness of women in their issues
28 Their cleansing

Leviticus 16

1 how the high priest must enter into the holy place
11 The sin offering for himself
15 The sin offering for the people
20 The scapegoat
29 The yearly feast of the expiations

Leviticus 17

1 The blood of slain beasts must be offered to the Lord at the tabernacle door
7 They must not offer to idols
10 All eating of blood is forbidden
15 and of all that dies by itself or is torn

Leviticus 18

1 Unlawful marriages and unlawful lusts

Leviticus 19

1 A repetition of various laws

Leviticus 20

1 Of him who gives his seed to Moloch
4 Of him who favors such an one
6 Of going to wizards
7 Of sanctification
9 Of him who curses his parents
11 Of incest
13 Of sodomy
15 Of bestiality
18 Of uncleanness
22 Obedience is required with holiness
27 Wizards must be put to death

Leviticus 21

1 Of the priests' mourning
6 Of their holiness
7 Of their marriages
8 Of their estimation
9 Of the high priest's holiness
10 Of his marriage
13 The priests that have blemishes must not minister in the sanctuary

Leviticus 22

1 The priests in their uncleanness must abstain from the holy things
6 How they shall be cleansed
10 Who of the priest's house may eat of the holy things
17 The sacrifices must be without blemish
26 The age of the sacrifice
29 The law of eating the sacrifice of thanksgiving

Leviticus 23

1 The feasts of the Lord
3 the Sabbath
4 The Passover
9 The sheaf of firstfruits
15 The feast of Pentecost
22 Gleanings to be left for the poor
23 The feast of trumpets
26 The day of atonement
33 The feast of tabernacles

Leviticus 24

1 The oil for the lamps
5 The showbread
10 Shelomith's son blasphemes
13 The law of blasphemy
17 Of murder
18 Of damage
23 The blasphemer is stoned

Leviticus 25

1 the Sabbath of the seventh year
8 The jubilee in the fiftieth year
14 Of oppression
18 A blessing of obedience
23 The redemption of land
29 Of houses
35 Compassion to the poor
39 The usage of bondmen
47 The redemption of servants

Leviticus 26

1 Of idolatry
2 Reverence
3 A blessing to those who keep the commandments
14 A curse to those who break them
40 God promises to remember those who repent

Leviticus 27

1 He who makes a singular vow must be the Lord's
3 The estimation of the person
9 of a beast given by vow
14 of a house
16 of a field and the redemption thereof
28 No devoted thing may be redeemed
30 The tithe may not be changed

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Numbers 1

1 God commands Moses to number the people
5 The princes of the tribes
17 The number of every tribe
47 The Levites are exempted for the service of the Lord

Numbers 2

1 The order of the tribes in their tents.

Numbers 3

1 The sons of Aaron
5 The Levites are given to the priests instead of the firstborn
14 Are numbered by their families
21 The families number and charge of the Gershonites
27 Of the Kohathites
33 Of the Merarites
38 The place and charge of Moses and Aaron
40 The firstborn are freed by the Levites
44 The balances are refunded

Numbers 4

1 The age at which the Levites were to serve and the duration of the service
4 The duty of the Kohathites
16 The charge of Eleazar
17 The office of the priests
21 The duty of the Gershonites
29 Of the Merarites
34 The number of the Kohathites
38 Of the Gershonites
42 And of the Merarites

Numbers 5

1 The unclean are removed out of camp
5 Restitution is to be made in trespass
11 The trial of jealously

Numbers 6

1 The law of the Nazarite in the days of his separation
13 And after their completion
22 The form of blessing the people

Numbers 7

1 The offering of the princes at the dedication of the tabernacle
10 Their several offerings at the dedication of the altar
89 God speaks to Moses from the mercy seat

Numbers 8

1 How the lamps are to be lighted
5 The consecration of the Levites
23 The age and time of their service

Numbers 9

1 The Passover is again commanded
6 A second Passover for the unclean or absent
15 The cloud directs the removals and encampments of the Israelites

Numbers 10

1 The use of the silver trumpets
11 The Israelites move from Sinai to Paran
14 The order of their march
29 Hobab is entreated by Moses not to leave them
33 The blessing of Moses at the removing and resting of the ark

Numbers 11

1 The burning at Taberah quenched by Moses' prayer
4 The people crave meat and loathe manna
10 Moses complains of his charge
16 God promises to divide his burden unto seventy elders
18 and to give the people meat for a month
21 Moses' faith is staggered
31 Quails are given in wrath at Kibroth Hattaavah

Numbers 12

1 God rebukes the sedition of Miriam and Aaron
11 Miriam's leprosy is healed at the prayer of Moses
14 God commands her to be shut out of the host
16 The people encamp in the desert of Paran

Numbers 13

1 The names of the men who were sent to search the land
17 Their instructions
21 Their acts
26 Their relation

Numbers 14

1 The people murmur at the news
6 Joshua and Caleb labor to still them
11 God threatens them
13 Moses intercedes with God and obtains pardon
26 The Murmurers are debarred from entering into the land
36 The men who raised the evil report die by a plague
40 The people that would invade the land against the will of God are smitten

Numbers 15

1 The law of the meat offering and the drink offering
14 The stranger is under the same law
17 The law of the first of the dough
22 The sacrifice for sins of ignorance
30 The punishment of presumption
32 He who violated the Sabbath is stoned
37 The law of tassels

Numbers 16

1 The rebellion of Korah Dathan and Abiram
23 Moses separates the people from the rebels' tents
31 The earth swallows up Korah and a fire consumes others
36 The censers are reserved to holy use
41 14700 are slain by a plague for murmuring against Moses and Aaron
46 Aaron by incense stays the plague

Numbers 17

1 Aaron's rod among all the rods of the tribes only flourishes
10 It is left for a monument against the rebels

Numbers 18

1 The charge of the priests and Levites
8 The priests portion
21 The Levites
25 The heave offering to the priests out of the Levites' portion

Numbers 19

1 The water of separation made of the ashes of a red heifer
11 The law for the use of it in purification of the unclean

Numbers 20

1 The children of Israel come to Zin where Miriam dies.
2 They murmur for want of water
7 Moses smiting the rock brings forth water at Meribah
14 Moses at Kadesh desires passage through Edom which is denied him
22 At Mount Hor Aaron resigns his place to Eleazar and dies

Numbers 21

1 Israel destroys the Canaanites at Hormah
4 The people murmuring are plagued with fiery serpents
7 They repenting are healed by a bronze serpent
10 Various journeys of the Israelites
21 Sihon is overcome
33 And Og

Numbers 22

1 Balak's first message for Balaam is refused
15 His second message obtains him
22 An angel would have slain him if he had not been saved by his donkey
36 Balak entertains him

Numbers 23

1 Balak's sacrifices

Numbers 24

1 Balaam leaving divinations prophesies the happiness of Israel
10 Balak in anger dismisses him
15 He prophesies of the Star of Jacob and the destruction of some nations

Numbers 25

1 Israel at Shittim commit unfaithfulness and idolatry
6 Phinehas kills Zimri and Cozbi
10 God therefore gives him an everlasting priesthood
16 The Midianites are to be troubled

Numbers 26

1 The sum of all Israel is taken in the plains of Moab
52 The law of dividing among them the inheritance of the land
57 The families and number of the Levites
63 None but Caleb and Joshua was left of those who were numbered at Sinai

Numbers 27

1 The daughters of Zelophehad ask for an inheritance
6 The law of inheritances
12 Moses being told of his death asks for a successor
18 Joshua is appointed to succeed him

Numbers 28

1 Offerings are to be observed
3 The continual burnt offering
9 The offering on the Sabbath
11 On the new Moons
16 At the Passover
26 In the day of the firstfruits

Numbers 29

1 The offering at the feast of trumpets
7 At the day of afflicting their souls
12 And on the eight days of the feast of tabernacles

Numbers 30

1 Vows are not to be broken
3 The exceptions of a maid's vows
6 Of a wife's
9 Of a widow's or her that is divorced

Numbers 31

1 The Midianites are spoiled and Balaam slain
13 Moses is angry with the officers for saving the women alive
19 How the soldiers with their captives and spoil are to be purified
25 The proportion in which the prey is to be divided
48 The voluntary offering unto the treasure of the Lord

Numbers 32

1 The Reubenites and Gadites ask for inheritance on the east side of Jordan
6 Moses reproves them
16 They offer him conditions with which he is content
33 Moses assigns them the land
39 They conquer it.

Numbers 33

1 The forty-two journeys of the Israelites
50 The Canaanites are to be destroyed

Numbers 34

1 The borders of the land
16 The names of the men who shall divide the land

Numbers 35

1 Forty-eight cities for the Levites with their suburbs and measure thereof
6 Six of them are to be cities of refuge
9 The laws of murder and manslaughter
31 No satisfaction for murder

Numbers 36

1 The inheritance of daughters is remedied by marrying in their own tribes
7 Lest the inheritance should be removed from the tribe
10 The daughters of Zelophehad marry their father's brothers' sons

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Deuteronomy 1

1 Moses' speech in the end of the fortieth year
6 briefly rehearsing the history of God's sending them from Horeb
14 of giving them officers
19 of sending the spies to search the land
34 of his anger for their incredulity
41 and disobedience

Deuteronomy 2

1 The story is continued that they were not to meddle with the Edomites
9 nor with the Moabites
16 nor with the Ammonites
24 but Sihon the Amorite was subdued by them

Deuteronomy 3

1 The conquest of Og king of Bashan
11 This size of his bed
12 The distribution of his lands to the two tribes and half
23 Moses prays to enter into the land
26 He is permitted to see it

Deuteronomy 4

1 An exhortation to obedience
41 Moses appoints the three cities of refuge on that side of Jordan
44 Recapitulation

Deuteronomy 5

1 The covenant in Horeb
6 The ten commandments
23 At the people's request Moses receives the law from God

Deuteronomy 6

1 The end of the law is obedience
3 An exhortation thereto
20 What they are to teach their children

Deuteronomy 7

1 All communion with the nations is forbidden
5 for fear of idolatry
6 for the holiness of the people
9 for the nature of God in his mercy and justice
17 and for the assuredness of victory which God will give over them.

Deuteronomy 8

1 An exhortation to obedience in regard to God's mercy and goodness to Israel.

Deuteronomy 9

1 Moses dissuades them from the opinion of their own righteousness
7 Moses reminds them of the golden calf

Deuteronomy 10

1 God's mercy in restoring the two tablets
6 in continuing the priesthood
8 in separating the tribe of Levi
10 in hearkening unto Moses' plea for his people
12 An exhortation to obedience

Deuteronomy 11

1 Another exhortation to obedience
2 by their own experience of God's great works
8 by promise of God's great blessings
16 and by threatenings
18 A careful study is required in God's words
26 The blessing and curse set before them

Deuteronomy 12

1 Monuments of idolatry to be destroyed
4 The place of God's service to be kept
15 Blood is forbidden
17 Holy things must be eaten in the holy place
19 The Levite is not to be forsaken
20 Blood is again forbidden
26 and holy things must be eaten in the holy place
29 Idolatry is not to be enquired after

Deuteronomy 13

1 Enticers to idolatry
6 however near to oneself
9 are to be stoned to death
12 Idolatrous cities are not to be spared

Deuteronomy 14

1 God's children are not to disfigure themselves in mourning
3 What may and may not be eaten
4 of animals
9 of fishes
11 of fowls
21 That which dies of itself may not be eaten
22 Tithes of Divine Service
23 Tithes and firstborns to be eaten before the Lord
28 The third year's tithe of alms and charity

Deuteronomy 15

1 The seventh year a year of release for the poor
7 one must be generous in lending or giving
12 A Hebrew servant except by choice must be freed in the seventh year
19 All firstborn males of the cattle are to be sanctified unto the Lord.

Deuteronomy 16

1 The feast of the Passover
9 of weeks
13 of tabernacles
16 Every male must offer as he is able at these three feasts
18 Of judges and justice
21 Asherah poles and images are forbidden

Deuteronomy 17

1 The things sacrificed must be sound
2 Idolaters must be slain
8 Hard controversies are to be determined by the priests and judges
12 The one who shows contempt for the judge must die
14 The election
16 and duty of a king

Deuteronomy 18

1 The LORD is the priests and Levites' inheritance
3 The priests' due
6 The Levites' portion
9 The abominations of the nations are to be avoided
15 Christ the Prophet is to be heard
20 The presumptuous prophet is to die

Deuteronomy 19

1 The cities of refuge
4 The privilege thereof for the manslayer
14 The landmark is not to be removed
15 At least two witnesses are required
16 the punishment of a false witness

Deuteronomy 20

1 The priest's exhortation to encourage the people to battle
5 The officers' proclamation of who are to be dismissed from the war
10 How to use the cities that accept or refuse the proclamation of peace
16 What cities must be devoted
19 Trees must not be destroyed in the siege

Deuteronomy 21

1 The Atonement for an Unsolved Murder
10 The usage of a captive taken to wife
15 The firstborn is not to be disinherited upon private affection
18 A rebellious son is to be stoned to death
22 The malefactor must not hang all night on a tree

Deuteronomy 22

1 Of humanity toward brothers
5 The sex is to be distinguished by apparel
6 The bird is not to be taken with her young ones
8 The house must have battlements
9 Confusion is to be avoided
12 Tassels upon the vesture
13 The punishment of him who slanders his wife
22 of adultery
23 of rape
28 of fornication
30 of incest

Deuteronomy 23

1 Who may or may not enter into the congregation
9 Uncleanness is to be avoided in the host
15 Of the fugitive servant
17 Of filthiness
18 Of abominable sacrifices
19 Of usury
20 Of vows
24 Of trespass

Deuteronomy 24

1 Of divorce
5 A new married man goes not to war
6 Of pledges
7 Of kidnapping
8 Of leprosy
10 Of pledges
14 The hire is to be given
16 Of justice
19 Of charity

Deuteronomy 25

1 Punishment must not exceed forty lashes
4 The ox is not to be muzzled
5 Of raising seed unto a brother
11 Of the immodest woman
13 Of unjust weights and measures
17 The memory of Amalek is to be blotted out

Deuteronomy 26

1 The confession of him who offers the basket of firstfruits
12 The prayer of him who gives his third year's tithes
16 The covenant between God and his people

Deuteronomy 27

1 The people are commanded to write the law upon stones
5 and to build an altar of whole stones
11 The tribes to be divided on Gerizim and Ebal
14 The curses to be pronounced on mount Ebal

Deuteronomy 28

1 The blessings for obedience
15 The curses for disobedience

Deuteronomy 29

1 Moses exhorts them to obedience reminding of the works they had seen
10 All are presented before the Lord to enter into his covenant
18 The great wrath on him who flatters himself in his wickedness
29 Secret things belong unto God

Deuteronomy 30

1 Great mercies promised unto the penitent
11 The commandment is manifest
15 Death and life are set before them

Deuteronomy 31

1 Moses encourages the people
7 He encourages Joshua
9 He delivers the law unto the priests to be read in the seventh year
14 God gives a charge to Joshua
19 and a song to testify against the people
24 Moses delivers the book of the law to the Levites to keep
28 He makes a protestation

Deuteronomy 32

1 Moses' song which sets forth God's mercy and vengeance
46 He exhorts them to set their hearts upon it
48 God sends him up to mount Nebo to see the land and to die

Deuteronomy 33

1 The majesty of God
6 The blessings of the twelve tribes
26 The excellence of Israel

Deuteronomy 34

1 Moses from mount Nebo views the land
5 He dies there
6 His burial
7 His age
8 Thirty days mourning for him
9 Joshua succeeds him
10 The praise of Moses

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Joshua 1

1 The Lord appoints Joshua to succeed Moses
3 The borders of the promised land
5 God promises to assist Joshua
8 He gives him instructions
10 Joshua prepares the people to pass over Jordan
12 He puts the two tribes and a half in mind of their promise to Moses
16 They promise him allegiance

Joshua 2

1 Rahab receives and conceals the two spies sent from Shittim
8 The covenant between her and them
23 Their return and description of events

Joshua 3

1 Joshua come to Jordan
2 The officers instruct the people for their passage
7 The Lord encourages Joshua
9 Joshua encourages the people
14 The water of Jordan are divided

Joshua 4

1 Twelve men are appointed to take twelve memorial stones from Jordan
9 Twelve other stones are set up in the midst of Jordan
10 The people pass over
14 God magnifies Joshua
15 The priests commanded to come out of Jordan
20 The twelve stones are pitched in Gilgal

Joshua 5

1 The Canaanites are afraid
2 Joshua renews circumcision
10 The Passover is kept at Gilgal
12 manna ceases
13 An angel appears to Joshua

Joshua 6

1 Jericho is shut up
2 God instructs Joshua how to beseige it
12 The city is composed
17 It is accursed
20 The walls fall down
22 Rahab is saved
26 The builder of Jericho is cursed

Joshua 7

1 The Israelites are smitten at Ai
6 Joshua's complaint
10 God instructs him what to do
16 Achan is taken by the lot
19 His confession
24 He and all he had are destroyed in the valley of Achor

Joshua 8

1 God encourages Joshua
3 The plan whereby Ai was taken
29 The king thereof is hanged
30 Joshua builds an altar
32 writes the law on stones
33 and pronounces the blessings and curses

Joshua 9

1 The kings combine against Israel
3 The Gibeonites by craft obtain a league
22 They are condemned to perpetual bondage

Joshua 10

1 Five kings war against Gibeon
6 Joshua rescues it
10 God fights against them with hailstones
12 The sun and moon stand still at the word of Joshua
16 The five kings are murdered in a cave
22 They are brought forth
24 scornfully used
26 and hanged
28 Seven kings more are conquered
43 Joshua returns to Gilgal

Joshua 11

1 Diverse kings overcome at the waters of Merom
10 Hazor is taken and burnt
16 All the country taken by Joshua
21 The Anakims cut off
23 The land rests from war

Joshua 12

1 The two kings whose countries Moses took and disposed of
7 The thirty-one kings on the other side of Jordan which Joshua smote

Joshua 13

1 The bounds of the land not yet conquered
8 The inheritance of the two tribes and a half
14 The Lord and his sacrifices are the inheritance of Levi
15 The bounds of the inheritance of Reuben
22 Balaam slain
24 The bounds of the inheritance of God
29 and of the half tribe of Manasseh

Joshua 14

1 The nine tribes and a half are to have their inheritance by lot
6 Caleb by privilege obtains Hebron

Joshua 15

1 The borders of the lot of Judah
13 Caleb's portion and conquest
16 Othniel for his valour marries Achsah Caleb's daughter
18 She obtains a blessing of her father
21 The cities of Judah
63 The Jebusites unconquered

Joshua 16

1 The general borders of the sons of Joseph
5 The border of the inheritance of Ephraim
10 The Canaanites of Gezer not conquered

Joshua 17

1 The lot of Manasseh
7 His coast
12 The Canaanites not driven out
14 The children of Joseph obtain another lot

Joshua 18

1 The tabernacle is set up at Shiloh
2 The remainder of the land is described and divided into seven parts
10 Joshua distributes it by lot
11 The lot and border of Benjamin
21 Their cities

Joshua 19

1 The lot of Simeon
10 of Zebulun
17 of Issachar
24 of Asher
32 of Naphtali
40 of Dan
49 The children of Israel give an inheritance to Joshua

Joshua 20

1 God commands
7 and the children of Israel appoint the six cities of refuge

Joshua 21

1 Forty-eight cities given by lot out of the other tribes unto the Levites.
43 God gives the land and rest unto the Israelites according to his promise

Joshua 22

1 The two tribes and a half with a blessing are sent home
10 They build the altar of testimony in their journey
11 The Israelites are offended thereat
21 They vindicate their conduct and give them good satisfaction

Joshua 23

1 Joshua's exhortation before his death
3 by former benefits
5 by promises
11 and by threatenings

Joshua 24

1 Joshua assembles the tribes at Shechem
2 A brief history of God's benefits from Terah
14 He renews the covenant between them and God
26 A stone the witness of the covenant
29 Joshua's age death and burial
32 Joseph's bones are buried
33 Eleazar dies

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Judges 1

1 The acts of Judah and Simeon
4 Adonibezek justly requited
8 Jerusalem taken
10 Hebron taken
11 Othniel has Achsah to wife for taking of Debir
16 The Kenites dwell in Judah
17 Hormah Gaza Askelon and Ekron taken
21 The acts of Benjamin
22 Of the house of Joseph who take Bethel
30 Of Zebulun
31 Of Asher
33 Of Naphtali
34 Of Dan

Judges 2

1 An angel rebukes the people at Bochim
6 The wickedness of the new generation after Joshua
14 God's anger and pity toward them
20 The Canaanites left to prove Israel

Judges 3

1 The nations which were left to prove Israel
5 By communion with them they commit idolatry
8 Othniel delivered them from Chushan-Rishathaim
12 Ehud from Eglon
31 and Shamgar from the Philistines

Judges 4

1 Deborah and Barak deliver them from Jabin and Sisera
17 Jael kills Sisera

Judges 5

1 The Song of Deborah and Barak

Judges 6

1 The Israelites for their sin are oppressed by Midian
8 A prophet rebukes them
11 An angel sends Gideon for their deliverance
17 Gideon's present is consumed with fire
24 Gideon destroys Baal's altar; offers a sacrifice upon the altar Jehovah-shalom
28 Joash defends his son and calls him Jerubbaal
33 Gideon's army
36 Gideon's signs

Judges 7

1 Gideon's army of thirty-two thousand is brought to three hundred
9 He is encouraged by the dream and interpretation of the burley cake
16 His plan of trumpets and lamps in pitchers
24 The Ephraimites take Oreb and Zeeb

Judges 8

1 Gideon pacifies the Ephraimites
4 Succoth and Penuel refuse to deliver Gideon's army
10 Zebah and Zalmunna are taken
13 Succoth and Penuel are destroyed
17 Gideon revenges his brothers's death on Zebah and Zalmunna
22 He refuses government
24 His ephod the cause of idolatry
28 Midian subdued
29 Gideon's children and death
33 The Israelites' idolatry and ingratitude

Judges 9

1 Abimelech by conspiracy with the Shechemites and murder of his brothers is made king
7 Jotham by a parable rebukes them and foretells their ruin
22 Gaal conspires with the Shechemites against him
30 Zebul reveals it
34 Abimelech overcomes them and sows the city with salt
46 He burns the hold of the god Berith
50 At Thebez he is slain by a piece of a millstone
56 Jotham's curse is fulfilled.

Judges 10

1 Tola judges Israel in Shamir
3 Jair whose thirty sons had thirty cities
6 The Philistines and Ammonites oppress Israel
10 In their misery God sends them to their false gods
15 Upon their repentance he pities them

Judges 11

1 The covenant between Jephthah and the Gileadites that he should lead
12 The treaty of peace between him and the Ammonites is in vain
29 Jephthah's vow
32 His conquest of the Ammonites
34 He performs his vow on his daughter.

Judges 12

1 The Ephraimites quarrelling with Jephthah are slain by the Gileadites
7 Jephthah dies
8 Ibzan who had thirty sons and thirty daughters
11 and Elon
13 and Abdon who had forty sons and thirty nephews judge Israel

Judges 13

1 Israel is delivered into the hands of Philistines
2 An angel appears to Manoah's wife
8 The angel appears to Manoah
15 Manoah's sacrifices whereby the angel is discovered.
24 Samson is born

Judges 14

1 Samson desires a wife of the Philistines.
6 In his journey he kills a lion
8 In a second journey he finds honey in the carcass
10 Samson's marriage feast
12 His riddle by his wife is made known
19 He strikes down thirty Philistines
20 His wife is married to another.

Judges 15

1 Samson is denied his wife
3 He burns the Philistines' corn with foxes and firebrands
6 His wife and her father are burnt by the Philistines
8 Samson smites them hip and thigh
9 He is bound by the men of Judah and delivered to the Philistines
14 He kills them with a jawbone
18 God makes the fountain En-hakkore for him in Lehi

Judges 16

1 Samson at Gaza escapes and carries away the gates of the city
4 Delilah corrupted by the Philistines entices Samson
6 Thrice she is deceived
15 At last she overcomes him
21 The Philistines take him and put out his eyes
22 His strength renewing he pulls down the house upon the Philistines and dies

Judges 17

1 Of the money that Micah first stole then restored his mother makes idols
5 And he makes ornaments for them
7 He hires a Levite to be his priest

Judges 18

1 The Danites send five men to seek out an inheritance
3 At the house of Micah they consult with Jonathan and are encouraged
7 They search Laish and bring back news of good hope
11 Six hundred men are sent to surprise it
16 In their way they rob Micah of his priest and his consecrated things
27 They win Laish and call it Dan
30 They set up idolatry wherein Jonathan inherits the priesthood.

Judges 19

1 A Levite goes to Bethlehem to fetch home his concubine
16 An old man entertains him at Gibeah
22 The Gibeonites abuse his concubine to death
29 He divides her into twelve pieces and sends them to the twelve tribes

Judges 20

1 The Levite in a general assembly declared his wrong
8 The decree of the assembly
12 The Benjamites being cited make head against the Israelites
18 The Israelites in two battles lose forty thousand
26 They destroy by a plan all the Benjamites except six hundred.

Judges 21

1 The people bewail the desolation of Benjamin
8 By the destruction of Jabesh Gilead they provide them four hundred wives.
16 They advise the remainder to surprise the virgins that danced at Shiloh

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Ruth 1

1 Elimelech driven by famine into Moab dies there
4 Mahlon and Chilion having married wives of Moab die also
6 Naomi returning homeward
8 dissuades her two daughters-in-law from going with her
14 Orpah leaves her but Ruth with great constancy accompanies her
19 The two come to Bethlehem where they are gladly received

Ruth 2

1 Ruth gleans in the field of Boaz
4 Boaz takes notice of her
8 and shows her great favor
18 That which she got she carries to Naomi

Ruth 3

1 By Naomi's instruction
5 Ruth lies at Boaz's feet
8 Boaz acknowledges the right of a kinsman
14 He sends her away with six measures of barley

Ruth 4

1 Boaz calls into judgment the next kinsman
6 He refuses the redemption according to the manner in Israel
9 Boaz buys the inheritance
11 He marries Ruth
13 She bears Obed the grandfather of David
18 The generations of Pharez unto David

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1 Samuel 1

1 Elkanah a Levite having two wives worships yearly at Shiloh
4 He cherishes Hannah though barren and provoked by Peninnah
9 Hannah in grief prays for a child
12 Eli first rebuking her afterwards blesses her
19 Hannah having born Samuel stays at home till he is weaned
24 She presents him according to her vow to the Lord

1 Samuel 2

1 Hannah's song in thankfulness
12 The sin of Eli's sons
18 Samuel's ministry
20 by Eli's blessing Hannah is more fruitful
22 Eli reproves his sons
27 A prophecy against Eli's house

1 Samuel 3

1 How the word of the Lord was first revealed to Samuel
11 God tells Samuel the destruction of Eli's house
15 Samuel though loath tells Eli the vision
19 Samuel grows in credit

1 Samuel 4

1 The Israelites are overcome by the Philistines at Ebenezer
3 They fetch the ark unto the terror of the Philistines
10 They are smitten again the ark taken and Hophni and Phinehas are slain
12 Eli at the news falling backward breaks his neck
19 Phinehas's wife discouraged in her travail with Ichabod dies

1 Samuel 5

1 The Philistines having brought the ark into Ashdod set it in the house Dagon
3 Dagon is smitten down and cut and cut in pieces
5 and they of Ashdod smitten with tumors
8 So God deals with them of Gath when it was brought thither
10 and so with them of Ekron when it was brought thither

1 Samuel 6

1 After seven months the Philistines take counsel how to send back the ark
10 They bring it on a new cart with an offering unto Beth Shemesh
19 The people are smitten for looking into the ark
21 They send to them of Kiriath Jearim to fetch it

1 Samuel 7

1 They of Kiriath Jearim bring the ark to Abinadab and sanctify Eleazar as guard
2 After twenty years
3 the Israelites by Samuel's means solemnly repent at Mizpeh
7 While Samuel prays and sacrifices
10 the Lord thwarts the Philistines by thunder at Ebenezer
13 The Philistines are subdued
15 Samuel judges Israel

1 Samuel 8

1 By occasion of the ill government of Samuel's sons the Israelites ask a king
6 Samuel praying in grief is comforted by God
10 He tells the manner of a king
19 God wills Samuel to yield unto the importunity of the people

1 Samuel 9

1 Saul despairing to find his father's donkeys
6 by the counsel of his servant
11 and direction of young maidens
15 according to God's revelation
18 comes to Samuel
19 Samuel entertains Saul at the feast
25 Samuel after secret communication brings Saul on his way

1 Samuel 10

1 Samuel anoints Saul
2 He confirms him by prediction of three signs
9 Saul's heart is changed and he prophesies
14 He conceals the matter of the kingdom from his uncle
17 Saul is chosen at Mizpeh by lot
26 The different affections of his subjects

1 Samuel 11

1 Nahash offers them of Jabesh Gilead a reproachful condition
4 They send messengers and are delivered by Saul
12 Saul thereby is confirmed and his kingdom renewed

1 Samuel 12

1 Samuel testifies his integrity
6 He reproves the people of ingratitude
16 He terrifies them with thunder in harvest time
20 he comforts them in God's mercy

1 Samuel 13

1 Saul's select band
3 He calls the Hebrews to Gilgal against the Philistines
5 The Philistines' great army
6 The distress of the Israelites
8 Saul weary of staying for Samuel sacrifices
11 Samuel reproves him
17 The three raiding parties of the Philistines
19 The policy of the Philistines to allow no blacksmith in Israel

1 Samuel 14

1 Jonathan goes and miraculously smites the Philistine's garrison
15 A divine terror makes them beat themselves
17 Saul not staying the priest's answer sets on them
21 The captivated Hebrews and the hidden Israelites join against them.
24 Saul's unadvised adjuration hinders the victory
31 He restrains the people from eating blood
35 He builds an altar
37 Jonathan taken by lot is save by the people
47 Saul's victories strength and family

1 Samuel 15

1 Samuel sends Saul to destroy Amalek
6 Saul favors the Kenites
7 He spares Agag and the best of the spoil
10 Samuel denounces unto Saul God's rejection of him for his disobedience
24 Saul's humiliation
32 Samuel kills Agag
34 Samuel and Saul part

1 Samuel 16

1 Samuel sent by God under pretense of a sacrifice comes to Bethlehem
6 His human judgment is reproved
11 He anoints David
15 Saul sends for David to quiet his evil spirit

1 Samuel 17

1 The armies of the Israelites and Philistines being ready to battle
4 Goliath challenges a combat
12 David sent by his father to visit his brothers takes the challenge
28 Eliab chides him
30 He is brought to Saul
32 shows the reason of his confidence
38 and slays the giant
55 Saul takes notice of David

1 Samuel 18

1 Jonathan befriends David
5 Saul envies his praise
10 seeks to kill him in his fury
12 fears him for his good success
17 offers him his daughters for snare
23 David persuaded to be the king's son-in-law
25 gives two hundred foreskins of the Philistines for Michal's dowry
28 Saul's hatred and David's glory increase

1 Samuel 19

1 Elkanah a Levite having two wives worships yearly at Shiloh
4 He cherishes Hannah though barren and provoked by Peninnah
9 Hannah in grief prays for a child
12 Eli first rebuking her afterwards blesses her
19 Hannah having born Samuel stays at home till he is weaned
24 She presents him according to her vow to the Lord

1 Samuel 20

1 David consults with Jonathan for his safety
11 Jonathan and David renew their covenant by oath
18 Jonathan's token to David
23 Saul missing David seeks to kill Jonathan
35 Jonathan affectionately takes his leave of David

1 Samuel 21

1 David at Nob obtains Ahimelech's hallowed bread
7 Doeg is present
8 David takes Goliath's sword
10 David at Gath feigns himself insane

1 Samuel 22

1 Companies resort unto David at Adullam
3 At Mizpeh he commends his parents unto the king of Moab
5 Admonished by Gad he comes to Hareth
6 Saul going to pursue him complains of his servants' unfaithfulness
9 Doeg accuses Ahimelech
11 Saul commands to kill the priests
17 The footmen refusing Doeg executes it
20 Abiathar escaping brings David the news

1 Samuel 23

1 David enquiring of the Lord by Abiathar rescues Keilah
7 God showing him the coming of Saul and the treachery of the Keilites
13 he escapes from Keilah
14 In Ziph Jonathan comes and comforts him
19 The Ziphites discover him to Saul
25 At Maon he is rescued from Saul by the invasion of the Philistines
29 He dwells at En Gedi

1 Samuel 24

1 David in a cave at En Gedi spares his life
8 He shows thereby his innocence
16 Saul acknowledging his fault takes an oath of David and departs.

1 Samuel 25

1 Samuel dies
2 David in Paran sends to Nabal
10 Provoked by Nabal's rudeness he minds to destroy him
14 Abigail understanding thereof
18 takes a present
23 and by her wisdom
32 pacifies David
36 Nabal hearing thereof dies
39 David takes Abigail and Ahinoam to be his wives
44 Michal is given to Phalti

1 Samuel 26

1 Saul by the discovery of the Ziphites comes to Hachilah against David
4 David coming into the trench keeps Abishai from killing Saul
11 but takes his spear and jug
13 David reproves Abner
17 and exhorts Saul
21 Saul acknowledges his sin

1 Samuel 27

1 Saul hearing David to be in Gath seeks no more for him
5 David begs Ziklag of Achish
8 He invading other countries persuades Achish he fought against Judah.

1 Samuel 28

1 Achish puts confidence in David
3 Saul having destroyed the witches
4 and now in his fear forsaken of God
7 has recourse to a witch
8 who encouraged by Saul raises up Samuel
15 Saul hearing his ruin faints
21 The woman and his servants refresh him with meat

1 Samuel 29

1 David marching with the Philistines
3 is disallowed by their princes
6 Achish dismisses him with commendations of his fidelity

1 Samuel 30

1 The Amalekites raid Ziklag
4 David asking counsel is encouraged by God to pursue them
11 By the means of a received Egyptian he is brought to the enemies
18 and recovers all the spoil
22 David's law to divide the spoil equally
26 He sends presents to his friends

1 Samuel 31

1 Saul having lost his army and his sons slain
4 he and his armor bearer kill themselves.
7 The Philistines possess the forsaken towns of the Israelites
8 They triumph over the dead bodies
11 They of Jabesh Gilead recovering the dead bodies by night
12 burn them at Jabesh
13 and mournfully bury their bodies.

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2 Samuel 1

1 The Amalekite who accused himself of Saul's death is slain
17 David laments Saul and Jonathan with a song

2 Samuel 2

1 David by God's direction with his company goes up to Hebron
4 where he is made king of Judah
5 He commends them of Jabesh Gilead for their king of Israel
8 Abner makes Ishbosheth king of Israel
12 A mortal skirmish between twelve of Abner's and twelve of Joab's men.
18 Asahel is slain
25 At Abner's motion Joab sounds a retreat
32 Asahel's burial

2 Samuel 3

1 During the war David becomes stronger
2 Six sons are born to him in Hebron
6 Abner displeased with Ishbosheth
7 revolts to David
13 David requires as a condition to bring him his wife Michal
17 Abner confers with the Israelites feasted by David and dismissed
22 Joab returning from battle is displeased with the king and kills Abner
28 David curses Joab
31 and mourns for Abner

2 Samuel 4

1 The Israelites being troubled at the death of Abner
2 Baanah and Rechab slay Ish-Bosheth and bring his head to Hebron
9 David causes them to be slain and Ish-Bosheth's head to be buried.

2 Samuel 5

1 The tribes come to Hebron and anoint David over Israel
4 David's age
6 Taking Zion from the Jebusites he dwells in it
11 Hiram sends to David
13 Eleven sons are born to him in Jerusalem
17 David directed by God smites the Philistines at Baal-perazim
22 And again at the mulberry trees

2 Samuel 6

1 David fetches the ark from Kirjath Jearim on a new cart
6 Uzzah is smitten at Perez Uzzah
9 God blesses Obed-Edom for the ark
12 David brings the ark into Zion with sacrifices and dances before it;
16 for which Michal despises him
17 He places it in a tabernacle with great joy and feasting
20 Michal reproving David for his joy is childless to her death

2 Samuel 7

1 Nathan first approving the purpose of David to build God a house
4 After by the word of God forbids him
12 God promises him benefits and blessings in his seed
18 David's prayer and thanksgiving

2 Samuel 8

1 David subdues the Philistines and the Moabites
3 He smites Hadadezer and the Syrians
9 Toi sends Joram with presents to bless him
11 David dedicates the presents and the spoil to God
14 He puts garrisons in Edom
16 David's officers

2 Samuel 9

1 David by Ziba sends for Mephibosheth
7 For Jonathan's sake he restores to him all that was Saul's
9 He makes Ziba his farmer

2 Samuel 10

1 David's messengers sent to comfort Hanun are villainously treated
6 The Ammonites strengthened by the Syrians overcome by Joab and Abishai
15 Shobuch making a new supply of the Syrains at Helam is slain by David

2 Samuel 11

1 While Joab besieges Rabbah David commits adultery with Bathsheba
6 Uriah sent for by David to cover the adultery would not go home.
14 He carries to Joab the letter of his death
18 Joab sends the news thereof to David
26 David takes Bathsheba as his wife

2 Samuel 12

1 Nathan's parable of the ewe lamb causes David to be his own judge.
7 David reproved by Nathan confesses his sin and is pardoned
15 David mourns and prays for the child while it lives
24 Solomon is born and named Jedidiah
26 David takes Rabbah and tortures the people thereof

2 Samuel 13

1 Amnon loving Tamar by Jonadab's counsel feigning himself sick ravishes her.
15 He hates her and shamefully turns her away
19 Absalom entertains her and conceals his purpose
23 At a sheep-shearing among all the king's sons he kills Amnon
31 David grieving at the news is comforted by Jonadab
37 Absalom flies to Talmai at Geshur

2 Samuel 14

1 Joab suborning a widow of Tekoah to incline the king's heart to fetch Absalom
21 brings him home to Jerusalem
25 Absalom's beauty hair and children
28 After two years Absalom is brought into the king's presence by Joab

2 Samuel 15

1 Absalom by fair speeches and courtesies steals the hearts of Israel.
7 By pretense of a vow he obtains leave to go to Hebron
10 He makes there a great conspiracy
13 David upon the news flees from Jerusalem
19 Ittai will leave him
24 Zadok and Abiathar are sent back with the ark
30 David and his company go up mount Olivet weeping
31 He curses Ahithophel's counsel
32 Hushai is sent back with instructions

2 Samuel 16

1 Ziba by presents and false suggestions obtains his master's inheritance
5 At Bahurim Shimei curses David
9 David with patience abstains and restrains others from revenge
15 Hushai insinuates himself into Absalom's counsel
20 Ahithophel's counsel

2 Samuel 17

1 Ahithophel's counsel is overthrown by Hushai's
15 Secret intelligence is sent unto David
23 Ahithophel hangs himself
25 Amasa is made captain
27 David at Mahanaim is furnished with provisions

2 Samuel 18

1 David viewing the armies in their march gives them charge of Absalom
6 The Israelites are sorely smitten in the wood of ephraim
9 Absalom hanging in an oak is slain by Joab and cast into a pit
18 Absalom's place
19 Ahimaaz and Cushi bring tidings to David
33 David mourns for Absalom

2 Samuel 19

1 Joab causes the king to cease his mourning
9 The Israelites are earnest to bring the king back
11 David sends to the priest to incite them of Judah
18 Shimei is pardoned
24 Mephibosheth excused
32 Barzillai dismissed and Chimham his son taken into the king's family
41 The Israelites expostulate with Judah for bringing home the king without them

2 Samuel 20

1 By occasion of the quarrel Sheba rebels in Israel
3 David's ten concubines are put in confinement for life
4 Amasa made captain over Judah is slain by Joab
14 Joab pursues Sheba to Abel
16 A wise woman saves the city by Sheba's head
23 David's officers

2 Samuel 21

1 The three year Gibeonite famine ceases by hanging seven of Saul's sons.
10 Rizpah's kindness unto the dead
12 David buries the bones of Saul and Jonathan in his father's tomb
15 Four battles against the Philistines wherein four men of David slay four giants.

2 Samuel 22

1 David's psalm of thanksgiving for God's deliverance and blessings

2 Samuel 23

1 David in his last words professes his faith in God's promises
6 The different state of the wicked
8 A catalogue of David's mighty men

2 Samuel 24

1 David tempted by Satan forces Joab to number the people
5 The captains in nine months and twenty days gather 1300000 fighting men
10 David repents and having three plagues proposed by God chooses pestilence
15 After the death of 700 David by prayer prevents the destruction of Jerusalem
18 David by God's direction purchases Araunah's threshing floor;
25 and the plague stops

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1 Kings 1

1 Abishag cherishes David in his extreme age
5 Adonijah David's darling usurps the kingdom
11 By the council of Nathan
15 Bathsheba moves the king
22 And Nathan seconds her
28 David renews his oath to Bathsheba
32 Solomon by David's appointment
38 being anointed king by Zadok and Nathan the people triumph
41 Jonathan bringing the news Adonijah's guests fly
50 Adonijah flying to the horns of the altar is dismissed by Solomon

1 Kings 2

1 David having given a charge to Solomon
3 of Reverence
5 of Joab
7 of Barzillai
8 of Shimei
10 Solomon succeeds
12 Adonijah moving Bathsheba to ask unto Solomon for Abishag
13 is put to death
26 Abiathar having his life given him is deprived of the priesthood
28 Joab fleeing to the horns of the altar is there slain
35 Benaiah is put in Joab's room and Zadfok in Abiathar's
36 Shimei confined to Jerusalem by occasion of going to Gath is put to death.

1 Kings 3

1 Solomon marries Pharaoh's daughter
2 High places being in use Solomon sacrifices at Gibeon
5 Solomon at Gibeon in the choice which God gave him
10 preferring wisdom obtains wisdom riches and honor
16 Solomon's judgment makes him renowned

1 Kings 4

1 Solomon's princes
7 His twelve officers for provision
20 The peace and largeness of his kingdom
22 His daily provision
26 His stable
29 His wisdom

1 Kings 5

1 Hiram sending to congratulate Solomon is desired to furnish him with timber
7 Hiram blessing God for Solomon furnishes him with trees.
13 The number of Solomon's workmen and laborers

1 Kings 6

1 The building of Solomon's temple
5 The chambers thereof
11 God's promise unto it
15 The ceiling and adorning of it
23 The cherubim
31 The doors
36 The court
37 The time of building it

1 Kings 7

1 The building of Solomon's house
2 Of the house of Lebanon
6 Of the porch of pillars
7 Of the porch of judgment
8 Of the house for Pharaoh's daughter
13 Hiram's work of the two pillars
23 Of the molten sea
27 Of the ten bases
38 Of the ten lavers
40 and all the vessels

1 Kings 8

1 The feast of the temple
12 Solomon's blessing
22 Solomon's prayer
54 Solomon's blessing
62 His sacrifice of peace offerings

1 Kings 9

1 God's covenant in a vision with Solomon
10 The mutual presents of Solomon and Hiran
15 In Solomon's works the Gentiles were his bondmen the Israelites servants
24 Pharaoh's daughter removes to her house
25 Solomon's yearly solemn sacrifices
26 His navy fetches gold from Ophir

1 Kings 10

1 The queen of Sheba admires the wisdom of Solomon
14 Solomon's gold
16 His targets
18 The throne of ivory
21 His vessels
24 His presents
26 his chariots and horse
28 his tribute

1 Kings 11

1 Solomon's wives and concubines
4 In his old age they draw him to idolatry
9 God threatens him
14 Solomon's adversaries were Hadad who was entertained in Egypt
23 Rezon who reigned in Damascus
26 And Jeroboam to whom Ahijah prophesied
41 Solomon's acts reign and death. Rehoboam succeeds him

1 Kings 12

1 The Israelites assembled at Shechem to crown Rehoboam
4 by Jeroboam make a suit of relaxation unto him
6 Rehoboam refusing the old men's counsel answers them roughly
16 Ten tribes revolting kill Adoram and make Rehoboam flee
21 Rehoboam raising an army is forbidden by Shemaiah
25 Jeroboam strengthens himself by cities
26 and by idolatry of the two calves

1 Kings 13

1 Jeroboam's hand withers
6 and at the prayer of the prophet is restored
7 The prophet departs from Bethel
11 An old prophet brings him back
20 He is reproved by God
23 slain by a lion
26 buried by the old prophet
31 who confirms the prophecy
33 Jeroboam's obstinacy

1 Kings 14

1 Abijah being sick
2 Jeroboam sends his wife disguised with presents to the prophet Ahijah
5 Ahijah forewarned by God denounces God's judgment
17 Abijah dies and is buried
19 Nadab succeeds Jeroboam
21 Rehoboam's wicked reign
25 Shishak raids Jerusalem
29 Abijam succeeds Rehoboam

1 Kings 15

1 Abijam's wicked reign
7 Asa succeeds him
9 Asa's good reign
16 The war between Baasha and him causes him to make a league with Ben-Hadad
23 Jehoshaphat succeeds Asa
25 Nadab's wicked reign
27 Baasha conspiring against him executes Ahijah's prophecy
31 Nadab's acts and death
33 Baasha's wicked reign

1 Kings 16

1 Jehu's prophecy against Baasha
5 Elah succeeds him
8 Zimri conspiring against Elah succeeds him
11 Zimri executes Jehu's prophecy
15 Omri made king by the soldiers forces Zimri desperately to burn himself
21 The kingdom being divided Omri prevails against Tibni
23 Omri builds Samaria
25 His wicked reign
27 Ahab succeeds him
29 Ahab's most wicked reign
34 Joshua's curse upon Hiel the builder of Jericho

1 Kings 17

1 Elijah having prophesied against Ahab
3 is sent to Cherith where the ravens feed him.
8 He is sent to the widow of Zarephath
17 He raises the widow's son
24 The woman believes him

1 Kings 18

1 In the extremity of famine Elijah sent to Ahab meets good Obadiah
9 Obadiah brings Ahab to Elijah
17 Elijah reproving Ahab by fire from heaven convinces Baal's prophets
41 Elijah by prayer obtaining rain follows Ahab to Jezreel

1 Kings 19

1 Elijah threatened by Jezebel flees to Beersheba
4 In the desert being weary of his life he is comforted by an angel
9 At Horeb God appears unto him sending him to anoint Hazael Jehu and Elisha
19 Elisha taking leave of his friends follows Elijah

1 Kings 20

1 Ben-Hadad not content with Ahab's homage besieges Samaria
13 By the direction of a prophet the Syrians are slain
22 As the prophet forewarned Ahab the Syrians come against him in Aphek
28 By the word of the prophet and God's judgment the Syrians are smitten again
31 The Syrians submit; Ahab sends Ben-Hadad away with a covenant
35 The prophet under the parable of a prisoner
39 making Ahab judge himself denounces God's judgment against him

1 Kings 21

1 Ahab being denied Naboth's vineyard is grieved
5 Jezebel writing letters against Naboth he is condemned of blasphemy
15 Ahab take possession of the vineyard
17 Elijah denounces judgments against Ahab and Jezebel
25 Wicked Ahab repenting God defers the judgment

1 Kings 22

1 Ahab seduced by false prophets by Michaiah's word is slain at Ramoth Gilead
37 The dogs lick up his blood and Ahaziah succeeds him
41 Jehoshaphat's good reign
45 His acts
46 Jehoram succeeds him
51 Ahaziah's evil reign

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2 Kings 1

1 Moab rebels
2 Ahaziah sending to Baal-Zebub has his judgement by Elijah
5 Elijah twice brings fire from heaven on those Ahaziah sent to apprehend him.
13 He pities the third captain
15 and encouraged by an angel tells the king of his death
17 Jehoram succeeds Ahaziah

2 Kings 2

1 Elijah taking his leave of Elisha with his mantle divides Jordan
9 and granting Elisha his request is taken up by a fiery chariot into heaven
12 Elisha dividing Jordan with Elijah's mantle is acknowledged his successor
16 The young prophets hardly obtaining leave to seek Elijah cannot find him.
19 Elisha with salt heals the unwholesome waters
23 Bears destroy the children that mocked Elisha

2 Kings 3

1 Jehoram's reign
4 Mesha rebels
6 Jehoram with Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom being distressed for want of water
13 by Elisha obtains water and promise of victory
21 The Moabites deceived by the colour of the water coming to spoil are overcome
26 The king of Moab sacrifices his son and raises the siege

2 Kings 4

1 Elisha multiplies the widow's oil
8 He obtains a son for the good Shunammite
18 He restores her son when dead
38 At Gilgal he heals the deadly pottage
42 He satisfies a hundred men with twenty loaves

2 Kings 5

1 Naaman by the report of a captive maid is sent to Samaria to be cured of leprosy
8 Elisha sending him to Jordan cures him
15 He refusing Naaman's gifts grants him some of the earth
20 Gehazi abusing his master's name unto Naaman is smitten with leprosy

2 Kings 6

1 Elisha allowing the young prophets to enlarge dwellings floats an axhead
8 He discloses the king of Syria's counsel
13 The army which was sent to Dothan to apprehend Elisha is blinded
19 Being brought into Samaria they are dismissed in peace
24 The famine in Samaria causes women to eat their own children
30 The king sends to slay Elisha

2 Kings 7

1 Elisha prophesies incredible plenty in Samaria
3 four lepers venturing on the host of the Syrians bring tidings of their flight
12 The king finding by spies the news to be true spoils the tents of the Syrians.
17 The lord who would not believe the prophecy of plenty is trampled in the press

2 Kings 8

1 The Shunammite having left her country seven years to avoid the famine
5 for Elisha's miracle's sake has her land restored by the king.
7 Hazael Murders Ben-Hadad and succeeds him
16 Jehoram's wicked reign in Judah
20 Edom and Libnah revolt
23 Ahaziah succeeds Jehoram
25 Ahaziah's wicked reign
28 He visits Joram being wounded at Jezreel

2 Kings 9

1 Elisha sends a young prophet with instructions to anoint Jehu at Ramoth Gilead
4 The prophet having done his message flees
11 Jehu being made king by the soldiers kills Joram in the field of Naboth
27 Ahaziah is slain at Gur and buried at Jerusalem
30 Proud Jezebel is thrown down out of a window and eaten by dogs.

2 Kings 10

1 Jehu by his letters causes seventy of Ahab's sons to be beheaded
8 He excuses the fact by the prophecy of Elijah
12 At the shearing house he slays forty-two of Ahaziah's brothers
15 He takes Jehonadab into his company
18 By subtilty he destroys all the worshippers of Baal
29 Jehu follows Jeroboam's sins
32 Hazael oppresses Israel
34 Jehoahaz succeeds Jehu

2 Kings 11

1 Jehoash being saved by Jehosheba his aunt from Athaliah's massacre
3 is hidden six years in the house of God
13 Jehoiada giving order to the captains in the seventh year anoints him king
17 Jehoiada restores the worship of God

2 Kings 12

1 Jehoash reigns well all the days of Jehoiada
4 He gives order for the repair of the temple
17 Hazael is diverted from Jerusalem by a present of the hallowed treasures
19 Jehoash being slain Amaziah succeeds him

2 Kings 13

1 Jehoahaz's wicked reign
3 Jehoahaz oppressed by Hazael is relieved by prayer
8 Joash succeeds him
10 His wicked reign
12 Jeroboam succeeds him
14 Elisha dying prophesies to Joash three victories over the Syrians
20 The Moabites invading the land Elisha's bones raise a dead man.
22 Joash gets three victories over Ben-hadad

2 Kings 14

1 Amaziah's good reign
5 His justice on the murderers of his father
7 His victory over Edom
8 Amaziah provoking Jehoash is overcome
15 Jeroboam succeeds Jehoash
17 Amaziah slain by a conspiracy
21 Azariah succeeds him
23 Jeroboam's wicked reign
28 Zachariah succeeds him

2 Kings 15

1 Azariah's good reign
5 He dying a leper is succeeded by Jotham
8 Zachariah the last of Jehu's generation reigning ill is slain by Shallum
13 Shallum reigning a month is slain by Nenahem
16 Menahem strengthens himself by Pul
21 Pekahiah succeeds him
23 Pekahiah is slain by Pekah
27 Pekah is oppressed by Tiglath-pileser and slain by Hoshea
32 Jotham's good reign
36 Ahaz succeeds him

2 Kings 16

1 Ahaz's wicked reign
5 Ahaz assailed by Rezin and Pekah hires Tiglath-Pileser against them
10 Ahaz sending a pattern of an altar from Damascus to Urijah
12 diverts the bronze altar to his own devotions
17 He raids the temple
19 Hezekiah succeeds him

2 Kings 17

1 Hoshea the Last King of Israel
3 Being subdued by Shalmaneser he conspires against him with So king of Egypt
5 Samaria for sinning is led into captivity
24 The strange nations transplanted into Samaria make a mixture of religions.

2 Kings 18

1 Hezekiah's good reign
4 He destroys idolatry and prospers
9 The inhabitants of Samaria are carried captive for their sins
13 Sennacherib invading Judah is pacified by a tribute
17 Rabshakeh by blasphemous persuasions solicits the people to revolt

2 Kings 19

1 Hezekiah in mourning sends to Isaiah to pray for them.
6 Isaiah comforts them.
8 Sennacherib going to encounter Tirhakah sends a blasphemous letter to Hezekiah.
14 Hezekiah's prayer.
20 Isaiah's prophecy of the destruction of Sennacherib and the good of Zion.
35 An angel slays the Assyrians.
36 Sennacherib is slain by his own sons.

2 Kings 20

1 Hezekiah having received a message of death by prayer has his life lengthened.
8 The sun goes ten degrees backward for a sign of that promise.
12 Berodach-baladan sending to visit Hezekiah has notice of his treasures.
14 Isaiah understanding thereof foretells the Babylonian captivity.
20 Manasseh succeeds Hezekiah.

2 Kings 21

1 Manasseh's reign.
3 His great idolatry.
10 His wickedness causes prophecies against Judah.
17 Amon succeeds him.
19 Amon's wicked reign.
23 He being slain by his servants and those murderers slain by the people
26 Josiah is made king.

2 Kings 22

1 Josiah's good reign.
3 He takes care for the repair of the temple.
8 Hilkiah having found a book of the law
12 Josiah sends to Huldah to enquire of the Lord.
15 Huldah prophesies the destruction of Jerusalem but respite thereof in Josiah's time.

2 Kings 23

1 Josiah causes the book to be read in a solemn assembly.
3 He renews the covenant of the Lord.
4 He destroys idolatry.
15 He burns dead men's bones upon the altar of Bethel as was prophesied.
21 He keeps a most solemn Passover.
24 He puts away witches and all abomination.
26 God's final wrath against Judah.
29 Josiah provoking Pharaoh Neco is slain at Megiddo.
31 Jehoahaz succeeding him
33 is imprisoned by Pharaoh Neco who makes Jehoiakim king.
36 Jehoiakim's wicked reign.

2 Kings 24

1 Jehoiakim first subdued by Nebuchadnezzar then rebelling against him
2 procures his own ruin.
5 Jehoiachin succeeds him.
7 The king of Egypt is vanquished by the king of Babylon.
8 Jehoiachin's evil reign.
10 Jerusalem is taken and carried captive into Babylon.
17 Zedekiah is made king and reigns ill unto the utter destruction of Judah.

2 Kings 25

1 Jerusalem is besieged.
4 Zedekiah taken his sons slain his eyes put out.
8 Nebuzaradan defaces the city exiles the remnant except a few poor laborers;
13 and carries away the treasures.
18 The nobles are slain at Riblah.
22 Gedaliah who was over those who remained being slain the rest flee into Egypt.
27 Evil-Merodach advances Jehoiachin in his court.

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1 Chronicles 1

1 Adam's line to Noah.
5 The sons of Japheth.
8 The sons of Ham.
17 The sons of Shem.
24 Shem's line to Abraham.
29 Ishmael's sons.
32 The sons of Keturah.
34 The posterity of Abraham by Esau.
38 The sons of Seir.
43 The kings of Edom.
51 The dukes of Edom.

1 Chronicles 2

1 The sons of Israel.
3 The posterity of Judah by Tamar.
13 The children of Jesse.
18 The posterity of Caleb the son of Hezron.
21 Hezron's posterity by the daughter of Machir.
25 Jerahmeel's posterity.
34 Sheshan's posterity.
42 Another branch of Caleb's posterity.
50 The posterity of Caleb the son of Hur.

1 Chronicles 3

1 The sons of David.
10 His line to Zedekiah.
17 The successors of Jeconiah.

1 Chronicles 4

1 The posterity of Judah by Caleb the son of Hur.
5 Of Ashur the posthumous son Hezron.
9 Of Jabez and his prayer.
11 The other families of the same stock.
21 The sons of Shelah.
24 The posterity and cities of Simeon.
39 Their conquest of Gedor and of the Amalekites in mount Seir.

1 Chronicles 5

1 Judah and Joseph preferred before Reuben who forfeited his birthright.
3 Ruben's descendants; some of whom vanquish the Hagarites.
11 The chief men of Gad and their habitations.
18 Ruben Gad and half of Manasseh obtain a victory over the Hagarites.
23 The habitations and chief men of that half of Manasseh.
25 The captivity of the two tribes and half for their sins.

1 Chronicles 6

1 The sons of Levi.
4 The line of Eleazar unto the captivity.
16 The families of Gershom Kohath and Merari.
49 The office of Aaron and his line unto Ahimaaz.
54 The cities of the priests and Levites.

1 Chronicles 7

1 The sons of Issachar;
6 of Benjamin;
13 of Naphtali;
14 of Manasseh;
15 and of Ephraim.
21 The calamity of Ephraim by the men of Gath.
23 His posterity by Beriah.
28 Their habitations.
30 The sons of Asher.

1 Chronicles 8

1 The sons and chief men of Benjamin
33 The stock of Saul and Jonathan

1 Chronicles 9

1 The original of Israel and Judah's genealogies
2 The Israelites
10 The priests
14 and the Levites with Nethinims who dwelt in Jerusalem
27 The charge of certain Levites
35 The stock of Saul and Jonathan

1 Chronicles 10

1 Saul's overthrow and death
8 The Philistines triumph over Saul
11 The kindness of Jabesh Gilead toward Saul and his sons
13 Saul's sin for which the kingdom was transferred from him to David

1 Chronicles 11

1 David Becomes King over All Israel
4 Jerusalem
10 David's Mighty Men

1 Chronicles 12

1 The companies that came to David at Ziklag
23 The armies that came to him at Hebron

1 Chronicles 13

1 David fetches the ark with great solemnity from Kirjath Jearim
9 Uzza being smitten the ark is left at the house of Obed-Edom

1 Chronicles 14

1 Hiram's kindness to David
2 David's fortune in people wives and children
8 His two victories against the Philistines

1 Chronicles 15

1 David having prepared a place for the ark
15 the priests and Levites bring it from Obed-Edom
25 He performs the solemnity thereof with great joy
29 Michal despises him

1 Chronicles 16

1 David's festival sacrifice
4 He orders a choir to sing thanksgiving
7 The psalm of thanksgiving
37 He appoints ministers porters priests and musicians to attend the ark

1 Chronicles 17

1 Nathan first approving the purpose of David to build God a house
3 after by the word of God forbids him
11 He promises him blessings and benefits in his seed
16 David's prayer and thanksgiving

1 Chronicles 18

1 David subdues the Philistines and the Moabites
3 He smites Hadarezer and the Syrians
9 Tou sends Hadoram with presents to bless David
11 The presents and the spoil David dedicates to God
13 He put garrisons in Edom
14 David's officers

1 Chronicles 19

1 David's messengers sent to comfort Hanun are villainously treated
6 The Ammonites strengthened by the Syrians are overcome by Joab and Abishai
16 Shobach making a new supply of the Syrians is slain by David

1 Chronicles 20

1 Rabbah is besieged by Joab spoiled by David and the people thereof tortured
4 Three giants are slain in overthrows of the Philistines.

1 Chronicles 21

1 David tempted by Satan forces Joab to number the people
5 The number of the people being brought David repents of it
9 David having three plagues proposed by God chooses the pestilence
14 After the death of 700 David by repentance prevents the destruction of Jerusalem
18 David by Gad's direction purchases Ornan's threshing floor;
26 where having built an altar God gives a sign of his favor by fire.
28 David sacrifices there being restrained from Gibeon by fear of the angel

1 Chronicles 22

1 David foreknowing the place of the temple prepares abundance for building it.
6 He instructs Solomon in God's promises and his duty in building the temple.
17 He charges the princes to assist his son

1 Chronicles 23

1 David in his old age makes Solomon king
2 The number and distribution of the Levites
7 The families of the Gershonites
12 The sons of Kohath
21 The sons of Merari
24 The office of the Levites

1 Chronicles 24

1 The division of the sons of Aaron by lot into twenty-four orders.
20 The Kohathites
26 and the Merarites divided by lot

1 Chronicles 25

1 The number and offices of the singers
8 Their division by lot into twenty-four orders

1 Chronicles 26

1 The divisions of the porters
13 The gates assigned by lot
20 The Levites that had charge of the treasures
29 Officers and judges

1 Chronicles 27

1 The twelve captains for each month
16 The princes of the twelve tribes
23 The numbering of the people is hindered
25 David's several officers

1 Chronicles 28

1 David in a solemn assembly having declared God's favor to him
5 and promise to his son Solomon exhorts them to fear God
9 He encourages Solomon to build the temple
11 He gives him patterns gold and silver etc

1 Chronicles 29

1 David by his example and entreaty
6 causes the princes and people to offer willingly
10 David's thanksgiving and prayer
20 The people having blessed God and sacrificed make Solomon king.
26 David's reign and death

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2 Chronicles 1

1 The solemn offering of Solomon at Gibeon
7 Solomon's choice of wisdom is blessed by God
13 Solomon's forces and wealth

2 Chronicles 2

1 Solomon's laborers for the building of the temple
3 His ambassage to Huram for workmen and provisions
11 Huram sends him a kind answer
17

2 Chronicles 3

1 The place and time of building the temple
3 The measure and ornaments of the house
11 The cherubim
14 The veil and pillars

2 Chronicles 4

1 The altar of brass
2 The molten sea upon twelve oxen
6 The ten lavers candlesticks and tables
9 The courts and the instruments of brass
19 The instruments of gold

2 Chronicles 5

1 The dedicated treasures
2 The solemn induction of the ark into the oracle
11 God being praised gives a visible sign of his favor

2 Chronicles 6

1 Solomon having blessed the people blessed God
12 Solomon's prayer in the consecration of the temple upon the bronze platform.

2 Chronicles 7

1 God having given testimony to Solomon's prayer by fire from heaven
2 and glory in the temple the people worship him
4 Solomon's solemn sacrifice
8 Solomon having kept the feasts of tabernacles and dedication dismisses the people
12 God appearing to Solomon gives him promises upon condition

2 Chronicles 8

1 Solomon's buildings
7 The remaining Canaanites Solomon makes tributaries but the Israelites rulers
11 Pharaoh's daughter removes to her house
12 Solomon's yearly solemn sacrifices
14 He appoints the priests and Levites to their places
17 The navy fetches gold from Ophir

2 Chronicles 9

1 The queen of sheba admires the wisdom of Solomon
13 Solomon's revenue in gold
15 His targets and shields
17 The throne of ivory
20 His vessels
23 His presents
25 His chariots and horse
26 His tributes
29 His reign and death

2 Chronicles 10

1 The Israelites assembled at Shechem to crown Rehoboam
3 by Jeroboam make a suit of relaxation unto him
6 Rehoboam refusing the old mens' counsel answers them roughly
16 Ten tribes revolting kill Hadoram and make Rehoboam flee

2 Chronicles 11

1 Rehoboam raising an army to subdue Israel is forbidden by Shemaiah
5 He strengthens his kingdom with forts and provisions
13 The priests and Levites and such as feared God forsaken by Jeroboam
17 strengthen the kingdom of Judah
18 The wives and children of Rehoboam

2 Chronicles 12

1 Rehoboam forsaking the Lord is punished by Shishak
5 He and the princes repenting at the preaching of Shemaiah
7 are delivered from destruction but not from spoil
13 The reign and death of Rehoboam

2 Chronicles 13

1 Abijah succeeding makes war against Jeroboam
4 he declares the right of his cause
13 Trusting in God he overcomes Jeroboam
21 The wives and children of Abijah

2 Chronicles 14

1 Asa following destroys idolatry
6 having peace he strengthens his kingdom with forts and armies
9 Calling of God he overthrows Zerah and spoils the Ethiopians

2 Chronicles 15

1 Asa with Judah and many of Israel moved by the prophecy of Azariah
12 make a solemn covenant with God
16 He puts down Maachah his grandmother for idolatry
18 He brings dedicated things into the house of God and enjoys a long peace.

2 Chronicles 16

1 Asa by the aid of the Syrians diverts Baasha from building Ramah
7 Being reproved thereof by Hanani he puts him in prison
11 Among his other acts in his disease he seeks not to God but to the physicians
13 His death and burial

2 Chronicles 17

1 Jehoshaphat succeeding Asa reigns well and prospers
7 He sends Levites with the princes to teach Judah
10 His enemies being terrified by God some of them bring him presents and tribute
12 His greatness captains and armies

2 Chronicles 18

1 Jehoshaphat joined in affinity with Ahab is persuaded to go against Ramoth Gilead
4 Ahab seduced by false prophets according to the word of Micaiah is slain there

2 Chronicles 19

1 Jehoshaphat reproved by Jehu visits his kingdom
5 His instructions to the judges
8 to the priests and Levites

2 Chronicles 20

1 Jehoshaphat invaded by Moab proclaims a fast
5 His prayer
14 The prophecy of Jahaziel
20 Jehoshaphat exhorts the people and sets singers to praise the Lord
22 The great overthrow of his enemies
26 The people having blessed God at Berachah return in triumph
31 Jehoshaphat's reign
35 His convoy of ships according to the prophecy of Eliezer unhappily perishes.

2 Chronicles 21

1 Jehoram succeeding Jehoshaphat slays his brothers
5 His wicked reign
8 Edom and Libnah revolt
12 The prophecy of Elijah against him in writing
16 Philistines and Arabians oppress him
18 His incurable disease infamous death and burial

2 Chronicles 22

1 Ahaziah succeeding reigns wickedly
5 in his confederacy with Joram the son of Ahab he is slain by Jehu
10 Athaliah destroying all the seed royal save Joash usurps the kingdom

2 Chronicles 23

1 Jehoiada having set things in order makes joash king
12 Athaliah is slain
16 Jehoiada restores the worship of God

2 Chronicles 24

1 Joash reigns well all the days of Jehoiada
4 He gives order for the repair of the temple
15 Jehoiada's death and honorable burial
17 Joash falling into idolatry slays Zechariah the son of Jehoiada
23 Joash is spoiled by the Syrians and slain by Zabad and Jehozabad
27 Amaziah succeeds him

2 Chronicles 25

1 Amaziah begins to reign well
3 He executes justice on the traitors
5 having hired an army of Israelites against the Edomites
7 at the word of a prophet dismisses them
11 He overthrows the Edomites
13 The Israelites discontented with their dismission spoil as they return home
14 Amaziah proud of his victory serves the gods of Edom and ignores the prophet
17 He provokes Joash to his overthrow
25 His reign
27 He is slain by conspiracy

2 Chronicles 26

1 Uzziah succeeding and reigning well in the days of Zechariah prospers
16 Waxing proud he invades the priest's office and is smitten with leprosy
22 He dies and Jotham succeeds him

2 Chronicles 27

1 Jotham Reigns in Judah

2 Chronicles 28

1 Ahaz reigning wickedly is greatly afflicted by the Syrians.
6 Judah being captivated by the Israelites is sent home by the counsel of Oded.
16 Ahaz sending for aid to Assyria is not helped thereby
22 In his distress he grows more idolatrous
26 He dying Hezekiah succeeds him

2 Chronicles 29

1 Hezekiah's good reign.
3 He restores religion
5 He exhorts the Levites
12 They sanctify themselves and cleanse the house of God
20 Hezekiah offers solemn sacrifices
24 wherein the Levites are more forward than the priests

2 Chronicles 30

1 Hezekiah proclaims a solemn passover on the second month for Judah and Israel.
13 The assembly having destroyed the altars of idolatry keep the feast fourteen days
27 The priests and Levites bless the people

2 Chronicles 31

1 The people go forward in destroying idolatry
2 Hezekiah orders the courses of the priests and Levites
4 and provides for their work and maintenance
5 The people's forwardness in offerings and tithes
11 Hezekiah appoints officers to dispose of the tithes
20 The sincerity of Hezekiah

2 Chronicles 32

1 Sennacherib invading Judah Hezekiah fortifies himself and encourages his people
9 Hezekiah and Isaiah pray against the blasphemies of Sennarchib
21 An angel destroys the host of the Assyrians
24 Hezekiah praying in his sickness God gives him a sign of recovery
25 His proud heart is humbled by God
27 His wealth and works
31 His error in the ambassage of Babylon
32 He dying Manasseh succeeds him

2 Chronicles 33

1 Manasseh's wicked reign
3 He sets up idolatry and will not be admonished
11 He is carried into Babylon
12 Upon his prayer to God he is released and puts down idolatry
18 His acts
20 He dying Amon succeeds him
21 who is slain by his servants
25 The murderers being slain Josiah succeeds him

2 Chronicles 34

1 Josiah's good reign
3 He destroys idolatry
8 He takes order for the repair of the temple
14 Hilkiah having found a book of the law
21 Josiah sends to Huldah to enquire of the Lord
23 Huldah prophesies the destruction of Jerusalem but respite thereof in Josiah's time
29 Josiah causing it to be read in a solemn assembly renews the covenant with God

2 Chronicles 35

1 Josiah keeps a most solemn Passover
20 He provoking Pharaoh Neco is slain at Megiddo
25 Lamentations for Josiah

2 Chronicles 36

1 Jehoahaz succeeding is deposed by Pharaoh and carried into Egypt
5 Jehoiakim reigning ill is carried bound into Babylon
9 Jehoiachin succeeding reigns ill and is brought into Babylon
11 Zedekiah succeeding reigns ill despite the prophets and rebels against Nebuchadnezzar
14 Jerusalem for the sins of the priests and the people is wholly destroyed
22 The proclamation of Cyrus

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Ezra 1

1 The proclamation of Cyrus for the building of the temple
5 The people provide for their return
7 Cyrus restores the vessels of the temple to Sheshbazzar

Ezra 2

1 The number that return of the people
36 of the priests
40 of the Levites
43 of the Nethinims
55 of Solomon's servants
61 of the priests who could not show their pedigree
64 The whole number of them with their substance
68 Their offerings

Ezra 3

1 The altar is set up
4 Offerings renewed
7 Workmen employed in preparing materials
8 The foundations of the temple are laid in great joy and mourning

Ezra 4

1 The adversaries being not accepted in the building of the temple with the Jews
4 endeavor to hinder it
7 Their letter to Artaxerxes
17 The answer and decree of Artaxerxes
23 The building is hindered

Ezra 5

1 Zerubbabel and Jeshua incited by Haggai and Zechariah set forward to building
3 Tattenai and Shethar-Bozenai are not able to hinder the Jews
6 Their letter to Darius against the Jews

Ezra 6

1 Darius finding the decree of Cyrus makes a new decree for building
13 By the help of Tattenai and Shethar-Bozenai the temple is finished
16 The feast of the dedication is kept
19 and the Passover

Ezra 7

1 Ezra goes up to Jerusalem
11 The gracious commission of Artaxerxes to Ezra
27 Ezra blesses God for this favor

Ezra 8

1 The companions of Ezra who returned from Babylon
15 He sends to Iddo for ministers for the temple
21 He keeps a fast
24 He commits the treasures to the custody of the priests
31 From Ahava they come to Jerusalem
33 The treasure is weighed in the temple
36 The commission is delivered

Ezra 9

1 Ezra mourns for the affinity of the people with strangers
5 He prays unto God with confession of sins

Ezra 10

1 Ezra encouraged to reform the strange marriages
6 Ezra assembles the people
9 The people repent and promise amendment
15 The care to perform it
18 The names of them which had married strange wives

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Nehemiah 1

1 Nehemiah understanding by Hanani the misery of Jerusalem mourns fasts and prays
5 His prayer

Nehemiah 2

1 Artaxerxes understanding the cause of Nehemiah's sadness
6 sends him with letters and commission to Jerusalem
9 Nehemiah to the grief of the enemies comes to Jerusalem
12 He views secretly the ruins of the walls
17 He incites the Jews to build

Nehemiah 3

1 The names and order of those who built the wall

Nehemiah 4

1 While the enemies scoff Nehemiah prays and continues the work
7 Understanding the wrath and secrets of the enemy he sets a watch
13 He arms the laborers
19 and gives military precepts

Nehemiah 5

1 The Jews complain of their debt mortgage and bondage
6 Nehemiah rebukes the usurers and causes them to make a covenant of restitution
14 He forbears his own allowance and keeps hospitality

Nehemiah 6

1 Sanballat practices by craft by rumors and by hired prophecies to terrify Nehemiah
15 The work is finished to the terror of the enemies
17 Secret intelligence passes between the enemies and the nobles of Judah

Nehemiah 7

1 Nehemiah commits the charge of Jerusalem to Hanani and Hananiah
5 A register of the genealogy of them which came at the first out of Babylon
9 of the people
39 of the priests
43 of the Levites
46 of the Nethinims
57 of Solomon's servants
63 and of the priests which could not find their pedigree
66 The whole number of them with their substance
70 Their offerings

Nehemiah 8

1 The reverent manner of reading and hearing the law
9 They comfort the people
13 The eagerness of the people to hear and be instructed
16 They keep the feast of tabernacles

Nehemiah 9

1 A solemn fast and repentance of the people
4 The Levites make a confession of God's goodness and their wickedness

Nehemiah 10

1 The names of those who sealed the covenant.
29 The points of the covenant.

Nehemiah 11

1 The rulers voluntary men and the tenth man chosen by lot dwell at Jerusalem.
3 A catalogue of their names.
20 Those who remain dwell in other cities.

Nehemiah 12

1 The priests and the Levites which came up with Zerubbabel.
10 The succession of high priests.
22 Certain chief Levites.
27 The solemnity of the dedication of the walls.
44 The offices of priests and Levites appointed in the temple.

Nehemiah 13

1 Upon the reading of the law separation is made from the mixed multitude.
4 Nehemiah at his return causes the chambers to be cleansed.
10 He reforms the offices in the house of God;
15 the violation of the Sabbath;
23 and the marriages with the strange wives.

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Esther 1

1 Xerxes makes royal feasts.
10 Vashti sent for refuses to come.
13 Xerxes by the counsel of Memucan puts away Vashti and decrees men's sovereignty.

Esther 2

1 Out of the choice of virgins a queen is to be chosen.
5 Mordecai the nursing father of Esther.
8 Esther preferred before the rest.
12 The manner of purification and going in to the king.
15 Esther best pleasing the king is made queen.
21 Mordecai discovering a treason is recorded in the chronicles.

Esther 3

1 Haman advanced by the king and despised by Mordecai seeks revenge upon the Jews.
7 He casts lots.
8 He obtains by false accusations a decree of the king to put the Jews to death.

Esther 4

1 The great mourning of Mordecai and the Jews.
4 Esther understanding it sends to Mordecai
7 who shows the cause and advises her to undertake the suit.
10 She excusing herself is threatened by Mordecai.
15 She appointing a fast undertakes the suit.

Esther 5

1 Esther adventuring on the king's favor obtains the grace of the golden sceptre
4 and invites the king and Haman to a banquet.
6 She being encouraged by the king in her suit invites them to another banquet.
9 Haman proud of his advancement repines at the contempt of Mordecai.
14 By the counsel of Zeresh he prepares for him a gallows.

Esther 6

1 Xerxes reading of the good service done by Mordecai takes care for his reward.
4 Haman coming to ask that Mordecai might be hanged
10 gives counsel that he might do him honor.
12 Complaining of this his friends tell him of his final destiny.

Esther 7

1 Esther entertaining the king and Haman pleads for her own life and her people's.
5 She accuses Haman.
7 The king in his anger understanding of the gallows Haman had made for Mordecai
10 causes Haman to be hanged thereon.

Esther 8

1 Mordecai is advanced.
3 Esther makes suit to reverse Haman's letters.
7 Xerxes grants to the Jews to defend themselves.
15 Mordecai's honor and the Jews' joy.

Esther 9

1 The Jews slay their enemies with the ten sons of Haman.
12 Xerxes at the request of Esther
14 grants another day of slaughter and Haman's sons to be hanged.
20 The two days of Purim are instituted.

Esther 10

1 Xerxes' greatness.
3 Mordecai's advancement.

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Job 1

1 The holiness riches and reverent care of Job for his children.
6 Satan appearing before God obtains leave to afflict Job.
13 Understanding of the loss of his children and goods in his mourning Job blesses God.

Job 2

1 Satan appearing again before God obtains further leave to tempt Job.
7 He afflicts him with sore boils.
9 Job reproves his wife who moved him to curse God.
11 His three friends console with him in silence.

Job 3

1 Job curses the day and services of his birth.
13 The ease of death.
20 He complains of life because of his anguish.

Job 4

1 Eliphaz reproves Job that the innocent do not suffer
7 He teaches God's judgments to be not for the righteous but for the wicked.
12 His fearful vision to humble the excellency of creatures before God.

Job 5

1 Eliphaz shows that the end of the wicked is misery;
6 that man is born to trouble;
8 that God is to be regarded in affliction;
17 the happy end of God's correction.

Job 6

1 Job shows that his complaints are not causeless.
8 He wishes for death wherein he is assured of comfort.
14 He reproves his friends of unkindness.

Job 7

1 Job excuses his desire of death.
12 He complains of his own restlessness and reasons with God.

Job 8

1 Bildad shows God's justice in dealing with men according to their works.
8 He alleges antiquity to prove the certain destruction of the hypocrite.
20 He applies God's just dealing to Job.

Job 9

1 Job acknowledges God's justice
22 Man's innocence is not to be condemned by afflictions

Job 10

1 Job taking liberty of complaint expostulates with God about his afflictions
18 He complains of life and craves a little ease before death

Job 11

1 Zophar reproves Job for justifying himself
5 God's wisdom is unsearchable
13 The assured blessing of repentance

Job 12

1 Job maintains himself against his friends that reprove him
7 He acknowledges the doctrine of God's omnipotence

Job 13

1 Job reproves his friends for partiality
14 He professes his confidence in God;
19 and entreats to know his own sins and God's purpose in afflicting him

Job 14

1 Job entreats God for favor by the shortness of life and certainty of death
7 He waits for his change
16 By sin the creature is subject to corruption

Job 15

1 Eliphaz reproves Job for impiety in justifying himself
17 He proves by tradition the restlessness of wicked men

Job 16

1 Job reproves his friends for unmercifulness
17 He maintains his innocence

Job 17

1 Job appeals from men to God
6 The unmerciful dealing of men with the afflicted may astonish
9 but not discourage the righteous
11 His hope is not in life but in death

Job 18

1 Bildad reproves Job for presumption and impatience
5 The calamities of the wicked

Job 19

1 Job complaining of his friends' cruelty
6 shows there is misery enough in him to feed their cruelty
21 He craves pity
23 He believes the resurrection

Job 20

1 Zophar shows the state and portion of the wicked

Job 21

1 Job shows that even in the judgment of man he has reason to be grieved
7 Sometimes the wicked prosper though they despise God
16 Sometimes their destruction is manifest
21 The happy and unhappy are alike in death
27 The judgment of the wicked is in another world

Job 22

1 Eliphaz shows that man's goodness profits not God
5 He accuses Job of various sins
21 He exhorts him to repentance with promises of mercy

Job 23

1 Job longs to appear before God
6 in confidence of his mercy
8 God who is invisible observes our ways
11 Job's innocence
13 God's decree is immutable

Job 24

1 Wickedness often goes unpunished
17 There is a secret judgment for the wicked

Job 25

1 Bildad shows that man cannot be justified before God

Job 26

1 Job reproving the uncharitable spirit of Bildad
5 acknowledges the power of God to be infinite and unsearchable

Job 27

1 Job protests his sincerity
8 The hypocrite is without hope
11 The blessings which the wicked have are turned into curses

Job 28

1 There is a knowledge of natural things
12 But wisdom is an excellent gift of God

Job 29

1 Job bemoans his former prosperity

Job 30

1 Job's honor is turned into extreme contempt
15 and his prosperity into calamity

Job 31

1 Job makes a solemn protestation of his integrity in several duties

Job 32

1 Elihu is angry with Job and his three friends
6 Because wisdom comes not from age he excuses the boldness of his youth
11 He reproves them for not satisfying Job
16 His zeal to speak

Job 33

1 Elihu offers himself instead of God to reason with Job
8 He excuses God from giving man an account of his ways by his greatness
14 God calls man to repentance by visions by afflictions and by his ministry
31 He incites Job to attention

Job 34

1 Elihu accuses Job for charging God with injustice
10 God omnipotent cannot be unjust
31 Man must humble himself unto God
34 Elihu reproves Job

Job 35

1 Comparison is not to be made with God
6 because our good or evil cannot extend unto him
9 Many cry in their afflictions but are not heard for lack of faith

Job 36

1 Elihu shows how God is just in his ways
16 How Job's sins hinder God's blessings
24 God's works are to be magnified

Job 37

1 God is to be feared because of his great works
15 His wisdom is unsearchable in them

Job 38

1 God challenges Job to answer
4 God by his mighty works convinces Job of ignorance
31 and weakness

Job 39

1 Of the wild goats and hinds
5 Of the wild donkey
9 The unicorn
13 The peacock stork and ostrich
19 The horse
26 The hawk
27 The eagle

Job 40

1 Job humbles himself to God
6 God stirs him up to show his righteousness power and wisdom
16 Of the behemoth

Job 41

1 Of God's great power in the leviathan

Job 42

1 Job submits himself unto God
7 God preferring Job's cause makes his friends submit themselves and accepts him
10 He magnifies and blesses Job
16 Job's age and death

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Psalms 1

1 The happiness of the godly
4 The unhappiness of the ungodly

Psalms 2

1 The kingdom of Christ
10 Kings are exhorted to accept it

Psalms 3

1 The security of God's protection

Psalms 4

1 David prays for audience
2 He reproves and exhorts his enemies
6 Man's happiness is in God's favor

Psalms 5

1 David prays and professes his study in prayer
4 God favors not the wicked
7 David professing his faith prays to God to guide him
10 to destroy his enemies
11 and to preserve the godly

Psalms 6

1 David's complaint in his sickness
8 He triumphs over his enemies

Psalms 7

1 David prays against the malice of his enemies professing his innocence
10 By faith he sees his defense and the destruction of his enemies

Psalms 8

1 God's glory is magnified by his works and by his love to man

Psalms 9

1 David praises God for executing judgment
11 He incites others to praise him
13 He prays that he may have cause to praise him

Psalms 10

1 David complains of the wicked
12 He prays for remedy
16 He professes his confidence

Psalms 11

1 David encourages himself in God against his enemies
4 The providence and justice of God

Psalms 12

1 David destitute of human comfort craves help of God
3 He comforts himself with God's promises and his judgments on the wicked

Psalms 13

1 David complains of delay
3 He prays for preventing grace
5 He boasts of divine mercy

Psalms 14

1 David describes a natural man
4 He convinces the wicked by the light of their conscience
7 He glories in the salvation of God

Psalms 15

1 David describes a citizen of Zion

Psalms 16

1 David in distrust of merits and hatred of idolatry
5 He shows the hope of his calling of the resurrection and life everlasting

Psalms 17

1 David in confidence of his integrity craves defense of God against his enemies
10 He shows their pride craft and eagerness
13 He prays against them in confidence of his hope

Psalms 18

1 David praises God for his manifold and marvelous blessings

Psalms 19

1 The creatures show God's glory
7 The excellence of the divine law
12 David prays for grace

Psalms 20

1 The church blesses the King in his exploits
7 and expresses her confidence in God's helpfulness

Psalms 21

1 A thanksgiving for victory
7 with confidence of further success

Psalms 22

1 David complains in great discouragement
9 He prays in great distress
23 He praises God

Psalms 23

1 David's confidence in God's grace

Psalms 24

1 God's Lordship in the world
3 The citizens of his spiritual kingdom
7 An exhortation to receive him

Psalms 25

1 David's confidence in prayer
7 He prays for remission of sins
16 and for help in affliction

Psalms 26

1 David resorts to God in confidence of his integrity

Psalms 27

1 David sustains his faith by prayer

Psalms 28

1 David prays earnestly against his enemies
6 and for the people

Psalms 29

1 David exhorts princes to give glory to God
3 by reason of is power
11 and protection of his people

Psalms 30

1 David praises God for his deliverance
4 He exhorts others to praise him by example of God's dealings with him

Psalms 31

1 David showing his confidence in God craves his help
7 He rejoices in his mercy
9 He prays in his calamity
19 He praises God for his goodness

Psalms 32

1 Blessedness consists in remission of sins
3 Confession of sins gives ease to the conscience
8 God's promises bring joy

Psalms 33

1 God is to be praised for his goodness
6 for his power
12 and for his providence
20 Confidence is to be placed in God

Psalms 34

1 David praises God and exhorts others thereto by his experience
8 They are blessed who trust in God
11 He exhorts to the fear of God
15 The privileges of the righteous

Psalms 35

1 David prays for his own safety and his enemies' confusion
11 He complains of their wrongful dealing
22 Thereby he incites God against them

Psalms 36

1 The grievous state of the wicked
8 The excellence of God's mercy
10 David prays for favor to God's children

Psalms 37

1 David persuades to patience and confidence in God
12 by the different estate of the godly and the wicked

Psalms 38

1 David moves God to take compassion on his pitiful case

Psalms 39

1 David's care of his thoughts
4 The consideration of the brevity and vanity of life
7 the reverence of God's judgments
10 and prayer are his bridles of impatience

Psalms 40

1 The benefit of confidence in God
6 Obedience is the best sacrifice
11 The sense of David's evils inflames his prayer

Psalms 41

1 The recompense of the charitable
4 David complains of his enemies' treachery
10 He flees to God for helpfulness

Psalms 42

1 David's zeal to serve God in the temple
5 He encourages his soul to trust in God

Psalms 43

1 David praying to be restored to the temple promises to serve God joyfully
5 He encourages his soul to trust in God

Psalms 44

1 The church in memory of former favors
7 complains of her present evils
17 professing her integrity
24 she fervently prays for helpfulness

Psalms 45

1 The majesty and grace of Christ's kingdom
10 The duty of the church and the benefits thereof

Psalms 46

1 The confidence which the church has in God
8 An exhortation to behold it

Psalms 47

1 The nations are exhorted cheerfully to entertain the kingdom of Christ.

Psalms 48

1 The ornaments and privileges of the church

Psalms 49

1 An earnest persuasion to build the faith of resurrection
16 Worldly prosperity is not to be admired

Psalms 50

1 The majesty of God in the church
5 His order to gather his saints
7 The pleasure of God is not in ceremonies
14 but in sincerity of obedience

Psalms 51

1 David prays for remission of sins whereof he makes a deep confession
6 He prays for sanctification
16 God delights not in sacrifice but in sincerity
18 He prays for the church

Psalms 52

1 David condemning the spitefulness of Doeg prophesies his destruction
6 The righteous shall rejoice at it
8 David upon his confidence in God's mercy gives thanks

Psalms 53

1 David describes the corruption of the natural man
4 He convinces the wicked by the light of their own conscience
6 He glories in the salvation of God

Psalms 54

1 David complaining of the Ziphims prays for salvation
4 Upon his confidence in God's help he promises sacrifice

Psalms 55

1 David in his prayer complains of his fearful case
9 He prays against his enemies of whose wickedness and treachery he complains
16 He comforts himself in God's preservation oh him and confusion of his enemies

Psalms 56

1 David praying to God in confidence of his word complains of his enemies
9 He professes his confidence in God's word and promises to praise him

Psalms 57

1 David in prayer fleeing unto God complains of his dangerous case
7 He encourages himself to praise God

Psalms 58

1 David reproves wicked judges
3 describes the nature of the wicked
6 devotes them to God's judgments
10 whereat the righteous shall rejoice

Psalms 59

1 David prays to be delivered from his enemies
6 He complains of their cruelty
8 He trusts in god
11 He prays against them
16 He praises God

Psalms 60

1 David complaining to God of former judgment
4 now upon better hope prays for deliverance
6 Comforting himself in God's promises he craves that help whereon he trusts

Psalms 61

1 David flees to God upon his former experience
4 He vows perpetual service unto him because of his promises

Psalms 62

1 David professing his confidence in God discourages his enemies
5 In the same confidence he encourages the godly
9 No trust is to be put in worldly things
11 Power and mercy belong to God

Psalms 63

1 David's thirst for God
4 His manner of blessing God
9 His confidence of his enemies' destruction and his own safety

Psalms 64

1 David prays for deliverance complaining of his enemies
7 He promises himself to see such an evident destruction of his enemies
10 as the righteous shall rejoice at it.

Psalms 65

1 David praises God for his grace
4 The blessedness of God's chosen by reason of benefits

Psalms 66

1 David exhorts to praise God
5 observe his great works
8 to bless him for his gracious benefits
12 He vows for himself reverent service to God
16 He declares God's special goodness to himself

Psalms 67

1 A prayer for the enlargement of God's kingdom
3 to the joy of the people
6 and the increase of God's blessings

Psalms 68

1 A prayer at the removing of the ark
4 An exhortation to praise God for his mercies
7 for his care of the church
19 for his great works

Psalms 69

1 David complains of his affliction
13 He prays for deliverance
22 He devotes his enemies to destruction
30 He praises God with thanksgiving

Psalms 70

1 David solicits God to the speedy destruction of the wicked
4 and preservation of the godly

Psalms 71

1 David in confidence of faith and experience of God's favor prays both for himself
10 and against the enemies of his soul
14 He promises constancy
17 He prays for perseverance
19 He praises God and promises to do it cheerfully

Psalms 72

1 David praying for Solomon shows the goodness and glory of God's kingdom
18 He blessed God

Psalms 73

1 The prophet prevailing in a temptation
2 Shows the occasion thereof the prosperity of the wicked
13 The wound given thereby diffidence
15 The victory over it knowledge of God's purpose.

Psalms 74

1 The prophet complains of the desolation of the sanctuary
10 He moves God to help in consideration of his power
18 Of his reproachful enemies or his children and of his covenant.

Psalms 75

1 The prophet praises God
2 He promises to judge uprightly
4 He rebukes the proud by consideration of God's providence
9 He praises God and promises to execute justice.

Psalms 76

1 A declaration of God's majesty in the church
11 An exhortation to serve him reverently.

Psalms 77

1 The psalmist shows what fierce combat he had with distrust
10 The victory which he had by consideration of God's great and gracious works.

Psalms 78

1 An exhortation both to learn and to preach the law of God
9 The story of God's wrath against the incredulous and disobedient
67 The Israelites being rejected God chose Judah Zion and David.

Psalms 79

1 The psalmist complains of the desolation of Jerusalem
8 He prays for deliverance
13 and promises thankfulness

Psalms 80

1 The psalmist in his prayer complains of the miseries of the church
8 God's former favors are turned into judgments
14 He prays for deliverance

Psalms 81

1 An exhortation to a solemn praising of God
4 God challenges that duty by reason of his benefits
8 God exhorting to obedience complains of their disobedience which proves their own hurt.

Psalms 82

1 The psalmist having exhorted the judges
5 And reproved their negligence
8 Prays God to judge

Psalms 83

1 A complaint to God of the enemies conspiracies
9 A prayer against those who oppress the Church

Psalms 84

1 The prophet longing for the communion of the sanctuary
4 Shows how blessed they are that dwell therein
8 He prays to be restored unto it.

Psalms 85

1 The Psalmist out of the experience of former mercies prays for continuance thereof.
8 He promises to wait thereon out of confidence of God's goodness

Psalms 86

1 David strengthens his prayer by the consciousness of his religion
5 By the goodness and power of God
11 He desires the continuance of former grace
14 Complaining of the proud he craves some token of God's goodness

Psalms 87

1 The nature and glory of the church
4 The increase honor and comfort of the members thereof.

Psalms 88

1 A prayer containing a grievous complaint.

Psalms 89

1 The psalmist praises God for his covenant
5 For his wonderful power
15 For the care of his church
19 For his favor to the kingdom of David
38 Then complaining of contrary events
46 He expostulates prays and blesses God.

Psalms 90

1 Moses setting forth God's providence
3 Complains of human fragility
7 Divine chastisement
10 and brevity of life
12 He prays for the knowledge and sensible experience of God's good providence.

Psalms 91

1 The state of the godly
3 Their safety
9 Their habitation
11 Their servants
14 Their friend; with the effects of them all.

Psalms 92

1 The prophet exhorts to praise God
4 For his great works
6 For his judgments on the wicked
10 And for his goodness to the godly.

Psalms 93

1 The majesty stability power and holiness of Christ's kingdom.

Psalms 94

1 The prophet calling for justice complains of tyranny and impiety.
8 He teaches God's providence
12 He shows the blessedness of affliction
16 God is the defender of the afflicted.

Psalms 95

1 An exhortation to praise God
3 For his greatness
6 And for his goodness
8 And not to tempt him

Psalms 96

1 An exhortation to praise God
4 for his greatness
8 for his kingdom
11 for his general judgment

Psalms 97

1 The majesty of God's kingdom
7 The church rejoices at God's judgments upon idolaters
10 An exhortation to godliness and gladness

Psalms 98

1 The psalmist exhorts the Jews
4 The Gentiles
7 And all the creatures to praise God

Psalms 99

1 The prophet setting forth the kingdom of God in Zion
5 Exhorts all by the example of their forefathers to worship God at his holy hill

Psalms 100

1 An exhortation to praise God cheerfully
3 For his greatness
4 And for his power

Psalms 101

1 David makes a vow and profession of godliness.

Psalms 102

1 The prophet in his prayer makes a grievous complaint.
12 He takes comfort in the eternity and mercy of God
18 The mercies of God are to be recorded
23 He sustains his weakness by the unchangeableness of God.

Psalms 103

1 An exhortation to bless God for his mercy
5 And for the constancy thereof

Psalms 104

1 A meditation upon the mighty power
7 And wonderful providence of God
31 God's glory is eternal
33 The prophet vows perpetually to praise God

Psalms 105

1 An exhortation to praise God and to seek out his works
7 The story of God's providence over Abraham
16 Over Joseph
23 Over Jacob in Egypt
26 Over Moses delivering the Israelites
37 Over the Israelites brought out of Egypt fed in the desert and planted in Canaan.

Psalms 106

1 The psalmist exhorts to praise God
4 He prays for pardon of sin as God pardoned the fathers
7 The story of the people's rebellion and God's mercy
47 He concludes with prayer and praise

Psalms 107

1 The psalmist exhorts the redeemed in praising God to observe his manifold providence
4 Over travelers
10 Over captives
17 Over sick men
23 Over sailors
33 And in diverse varieties of life.

Psalms 108

1 David encourages himself to praise God
5 He prays for God's assistance according to his promise
11 His confidence in God's help

Psalms 109

1 David complains of his slanderous enemies
16 He shows their sin
21 Complaining of his own misery he prays for help
29 He promises thankfulness

Psalms 110

1 The kingdom
4 The priesthood
5 The conquest
7 And the passion of Christ

Psalms 111

1 The psalmist by his example incites others to praise God for his glorious
5 And gracious works
10 The fear of God breeds true wisdom

Psalms 112

1 Godliness has the promises of this life
4 And of the life to come
10 The prosperity of the godly shall be an eyesore to the wicked

Psalms 113

1 An exhortation to praise God for his excellence
6 For his mercy

Psalms 114

1 The miracles wrought by God when he brought his people out of Egypt
7 are a just ground of fearing him.

Psalms 115

1 Because God is truly glorious
4 And idols are vanity
9 He exhorts to confidence in God
12 God is to be blessed for his blessing

Psalms 116

1 The psalmist professes his love and duty to God for his deliverance
12 He studies to be thankful

Psalms 117

1 An exhortation to praise God for his mercy and truth

Psalms 118

1 An exhortation to praise God for his mercy
5 The psalmist by his experience shows how good it is to trust in God
19 Under the type of the psalmist the coming of Christ in his kingdom is expressed

Psalms 119

1 This psalm contains various prayers praises and professions of obedience.
2 Aleph.
9 Beth
17 Gimel
25 Daleth
33 He
41 Waw
49 Zayin
57 Heth
65 Teth
73 Yodh
81 Kaph
89 Lamedh
97 Mem
105 Nun
113 Samekh
121 Ayin
129 Pe
137 Tsadhe
145 Qoph
153 Resh
161 Sin and Shin
169 Taw

Psalms 120

1 David prays against Doeg
3 Reproves his tongue
5 Complains of his necessary conversation with the wicked

Psalms 121

1 The great safety of the godly who put their trust in God's protection

Psalms 122

1 David professes his joy for the church
6 And prays for the peace thereof

Psalms 123

1 The godly profess their confidence in God
3 And pray to be delivered from contempt

Psalms 124

1 The church blesses God for a miraculous deliverance

Psalms 125

1 The safety of such as trust in God
4 A prayer for the godly and against the wicked

Psalms 126

1 The church celebrating her incredible return out of captivity
4 Prays for and prophesies the good success thereof

Psalms 127

1 The virtue of God's blessing
3 Good children are his gift

Psalms 128

1 The various blessings which follow those who fear God

Psalms 129

1 An exhortation to praise God for saving Israel in their great afflictions
5 The haters of the church are cursed

Psalms 130

1 The psalmist professes his hope in prayer
5 And his patience in hope
7 He exhorts Israel to trust in God

Psalms 131

1 David professing his humility
3 Exhorts Israel to trust in God

Psalms 132

1 David in his prayer commends unto God the reverent care he had for the ark
8 His prayer at the removing of the ark
11 With a repetition of God's promises

Psalms 133

1 The blessedness of unity among brothers

Psalms 134

1 An exhortation to bless God

Psalms 135

1 An exhortation to praise God for his mercy
5 For his power
8 For his judgments
15 The vanity of idols
19 An exhortation to bless God

Psalms 136

1 An exhortation to give thanks to God for particular mercies.

Psalms 137

1 The constancy of the Jews in captivity
7 The prophet curses Edom and Babel

Psalms 138

1 David praises God for the truth of his word
4 He prophesies that the kings of the earth shall praise God
7 He professes his confidence in God

Psalms 139

1 David praises God for his all-seeing providence
17 And for this infinite mercies
19 He defies the wicked
23 He prays for sincerity

Psalms 140

1 David prays to be delivered from Saul and Doeg
8 He prays against them
12 He comforts himself by confidence in God

Psalms 141

1 David prays that his suit may be acceptable
3 His conscience sincere
7 And his life free from snares

Psalms 142

1 David shows that in his trouble all his comfort was in prayer unto God

Psalms 143

1 David prays for favor in judgment
3 He complains of his grief
5 He strengthens his faith by meditation and prayer
7 He prays for grace
9 For deliverance
10 For sanctification
12 For destruction of his enemies

Psalms 144

1 David blesses God for his mercy both to him and to man
5 He prays that God would powerfully deliver him from his enemies
9 He promises to praise God
11 He prays for the happy state of the kingdom

Psalms 145

1 David praises God for his fame
8 For his goodness
11 For his kingdom
14 For his providence
17 For his justice holiness and savings mercy

Psalms 146

1 The Psalmist vows perpetual praises to God
3 He exhorts not to trust in man
5 God for his power justice mercy and kingdom is only worthy to be trusted

Psalms 147

1 The prophet exhorts to praise God for his care of the church
4 His power and wisdom
6 His mercy
7 His providence
12 To praise him for his blessings upon the kingdom
15 For his power over the elements
19 And for his ordinances in the church

Psalms 148

1 The psalmist exhorts the celestial
7 The terrestrial
11 And the rational creatures to praise God

Psalms 149

1 The prophet exhorts to praise God for his love to the church
5 And for that power which he has given to the church

Psalms 150

1 An exhortation to praise God
3 With all kinds of instruments

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Proverbs 1

1 The use of the proverbs
7 An exhortation to fear God and believe his word
10 to avoid the enticing of sinners
20 Wisdom complains of her contempt
24 She threatens her contemners

Proverbs 2

1 wisdom promises godliness to her children
10 and safety from evil company
20 and direction in good ways

Proverbs 3

1 various exhortations
13 The gain of wisdom
27 Exhortation to goodness
33 the different state of the wicked and upright

Proverbs 4

1 persuades to wisdom
14 and to show wickedness
20 He exhorts to sanctification

Proverbs 5

1 Solomon exhorts to wisdom
3 He shows the mischief of unfaithfulness and riot
15 He exhorts to contentedness generosity and chastity
22 The wicked are overtaken with their own sins

Proverbs 6

1 against indebtedness
6 idleness
12 and mischievousness
16 seven things detestable to God
20 the blessings of obedience
25 the mischief of unfaithfulness

Proverbs 7

1 Solomon persuades to a sincere and kind familiarity with wisdom
6 In an example of his own experience he shows
10 the cunning of a harlot
22 and the desperate simplicity of a young wanton
24 He detests such wickedness

Proverbs 8

1 the fame
6 and evidence of wisdom
10 The excellence
12 the nature
15 the power
18 the riches
22 and the eternity of wisdom
32 Wisdom is to be desired for the blessedness it brings

Proverbs 9

1 The discipline
4 and the doctrine of wisdom
13 The custom
16 and error of folly

Proverbs 10

1 Proverbs of Solomon: observations of moral virtues and their contrary vices

Proverbs 11

1 On Deception

Proverbs 12

1 Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge

Proverbs 13

1 a scoffer does not listen to rebuke

Proverbs 14

1 A wise woman builds her house

Proverbs 15

1 A gentle answer turns away wrath

Proverbs 16

1 The Plans of the heart

Proverbs 17

1 Contrasts between the Righteous and the Wicked

Proverbs 18

1 A fool delights not in understanding

Proverbs 19

1 Life and Conduct

Proverbs 20

1 Proper Living

Proverbs 21

1 The king's heart in the hand of the Lord

Proverbs 22

1 A good name is more desirable than great wealth

Proverbs 23

1 Consider carefully what is before you

Proverbs 24

1 Precepts and Warnings

Proverbs 25

1 observations about kings
8 and about avoiding causes of quarrels

Proverbs 26

1 observations about fools
13 about sluggards
17 and about contentious busybodies

Proverbs 27

1 observations of self love
5 of true love
11 of care to avoid offenses
23 and of the household care

Proverbs 28

1 general observations of impiety and integrity

Proverbs 29

1 observations of public government
15 and of private
22 Of anger pride thievery cowardice and corruption

Proverbs 30

1 Agur's confession of his faith
7 The two points of his prayer
10 The meanest are not to be wronged
11 Four wicked generations
15 Four things insatiable
24 four things exceeding wise
29 Four things stately
32 Wrath is to be prevented

Proverbs 31

1 Lemuel's lesson of chastity and temperance
6 The afflicted are to be comforted and defended
10 The praise and properties of a good wife

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Ecclesiastes 1

1 the preacher shows that all human courses are vain
4 because the creatures are restless in their courses
9 they bring forth nothing new and all old things are forgotten
12 and because he has found it so in the studies of wisdom

Ecclesiastes 2

1 the vanity of human courses is the work of pleasure
12 Though the wise be better than the fool yet both have one event
18 The vanity of human labor in leaving it they know not to whom
24 Nothing better than joy in our labor but that is God's gift

Ecclesiastes 3

1 by the necessary change of times vanity is added to human travail
11 is an excellence in God's works
16 as for man God shall judge his works hereafter though here he be like a beast

Ecclesiastes 4

1 vanity is increased unto men by oppression
4 by envy
5 by idleness
7 by covetousness
9 by solitariness
13 by willfulness

Ecclesiastes 5

1 vanities in divine service
8 in murmuring against oppression
9 and in riches
18 Joy in riches is the gift of God.

Ecclesiastes 6

1 the vanity of riches without use
3 though a man have many children and a long life
7 the vanity of sight and wandering desires
10 The conclusion of vanities

Ecclesiastes 7

1 remedies against vanity are a good name
2 mortification
7 patience
11 wisdom
23 The difficulty of wisdom

Ecclesiastes 8

1 true wisdom is modest
2 Kings are to be respected
6 Divine providence is to be observed
12 It is better with the godly in adversity than with the wicked in prosperity
16 The work of God is unsearchable

Ecclesiastes 9

1 like things happen to good and bad
4 there is a necessity of death unto men
7 Comfort is all their portion in this life
11 God's providence rules over all
13 wisdom is better than strength

Ecclesiastes 10

1 observations of wisdom and folly
7 death in life
9 and the day of judgment in the days of youth are to be thought on

Ecclesiastes 11

1 directions for charity
7 death in life and the day of judgment
9 in the days of youth

Ecclesiastes 12

1 the Creator is to be remembered in due time
8 The preacher's care to edify
13 the fear of God is the chief antidote for vanity

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Song of Solomon 1

1 the church's love unto Christ
5 She confesses her deformity
7 and prays to be directed to his flock
8 Christ directs her to the shepherd's tents
9 and showing his love to her
11 gives her gracious promises
12 the church and Christ congratulate one another

Song of Solomon 2

1 the mutual love of Christ and his church
8 The hope
10 and calling of the church
14 Christ's care of the church
16 The profession of the church her faith and hope

Song of Solomon 3

1 the church's fight and victory in temptation
6 The church glories in Christ

Song of Solomon 4

1 Christ sets forth the graces of the church
8 He shows forth his love to her
16 The church prays to be made fit for his presence

Song of Solomon 5

1 Christ awakes the church with his calling
2 The church having a taste of Christ's love is sick of love
9 A description of Christ by his graces

Song of Solomon 6

1 the church professes her faith in Christ
4 Christ shows the graces of the church
10 and his love toward her

Song of Solomon 7

1 a further description of the church's graces.
10 The church professes her faith and desire

Song of Solomon 8

1 The love of the church to Christ
6 The vehemence of love
8 The calling of the Gentiles
14 the church prays for Christ's coming

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Isaiah 1

1 Isaiah complains of Judah for her rebellion
5 He laments her judgments
10 He upbraids their whole service
16 He exhorts to repentance with promises and threats
21 Bewailing their wickedness he denounces God's judgments
25 He promises grace
28 And threatens destruction to the wicked

Isaiah 2

1 Isaiah prophesies the coming of Christ's kingdom
6 Wickedness is the cause of God's forsaking
10 He exhorts to fear because of the powerful effects of God's majesty

Isaiah 3

1 The great calamities which come by sin
10 The different rewards of the righteous and wicked
12 The oppression and covetousness of the rulers
16 The judgments which shall be for the pride of the women
25 The general desolation

Isaiah 4

1 In the extremity of evils Christ's kingdom shall be a sanctuary.

Isaiah 5

1 Under the parable of a vineyard God excuses his severe judgment
8 His judgments upon covetousness
11 Upon lasciviousness
13 Upon impiety
20 And upon injustice
26 The executioners of God's judgments

Isaiah 6

1 Isaiah in a vision of the Lord in his glory
5 Being terrified has apprehensions removed
8 He offers himself and is sent to show the obstinacy of the people
13 A remnant shall be saved

Isaiah 7

1 Ahaz being troubled with fear of Rezin and Pekah is comforted by Isaiah
10 Ahaz having liberty to choose a sign and refusing it has for a sign Christ promised
17 His judgment is prophesied to come by Assyria

Isaiah 8

1 In Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz he prophesies Syria and Israel shall be subdued by Assyria
5 Judah likewise for their infidelity
9 God's judgments shall be irresistible
11 Comfort shall be to those who fear God
19 Great afflictions to idolaters

Isaiah 9

1 What joy shall be in the midst of afflictions by the birth and kingdom of Christ
8 The judgments upon Israel for their pride
13 For their hypocrisy
18 And for their unrepentance

Isaiah 10

1 The woe of tyrants
5 Assyria the rod of hypocrites for its pride shall be broken
20 A remnant of Israel shall be saved
23 Judah is comforted with promise of deliverance from Assyria

Isaiah 11

1 The peaceable kingdom of the Branch out of the root of Jesse
10 The victorious restoration of Israel and vocation of the Gentiles.

Isaiah 12

1 A joyful thanksgiving of the faithful for the mercies of God

Isaiah 13

1 God musters the armies of his wrath
6 He threatens to destroy Babylon by the Medes
19 The desolation of Babylon

Isaiah 14

1 God's merciful restoration of Israel
3 Their triumphant exultation over Babel
24 God's purpose against Assyria
29 Philistia is threatened

Isaiah 15

1 The lamentable state of Moab

Isaiah 16

1 Moab is exhorted to yield obedience to the throne of David
6 Moab is threatened for her pride
9 The prophet bewails her
12 The judgment of Moab

Isaiah 17

1 Syria and Israel are threatened
6 A remnant shall forsake idolatry
9 The rest shall be plagued for their impiety
12 The woe of Israel's enemies

Isaiah 18

1 God in care of his people will destroy the Ethiopians
7 An accession thereby shall be made to the church

Isaiah 19

1 The confusion of Egypt
11 The foolishness of their princes
18 The calling of Egypt into the church
23 The covenant of Egypt Assyria and Israel

Isaiah 20

1 A type prefiguring the shameful captivity of Egypt and Ethiopia.

Isaiah 21

1 The prophet bewailing the captivity of his people
6 sees in a vision the fall of Babylon by the Medes and Persians.
11 Edom scorning the prophet is moved to repentance.
13 The set time of Arabia's calamity.

Isaiah 22

1 The prophet laments the invasion of Jerusalem
8 He reproves their human wisdom and worldly joy
15 He prophesies Shebna's deprivation
20 And the substitution of Eliakim prefiguring the kingdom of Christ.

Isaiah 23

1 The miserable overthrow of Tyre
15 Her restoration and unfaithfulness

Isaiah 24

1 The doleful judgments of God upon the land
13 A remnant shall joyfully praise him
16 God in his judgments shall advance his kingdom

Isaiah 25

1 Song of Praise for God's Favor

Isaiah 26

1 Trust in God's Provision

Isaiah 27

1 The Deliverance of Israel

Isaiah 28

1 The prophet threatens Ephraim for their pride and drunkenness
5 The residue shall be advanced in the kingdom of Christ
7 He rebukes their error
9 Their unwillingness to learn
14 And their security
16 Christ the sure foundation is promised
17 Their security shall be tried
23 They are incited to the consideration of God's providence

Isaiah 29

1 God's heavy judgment upon Jerusalem
7 The insatiableness of her enemies
9 The senselessness
13 And deep hypocrisy of the people
17 A promise of sanctification to the godly

Isaiah 30

1 The prophet threatens the people for their confidence in Egypt
8 And contempt of God's word
18 God's mercies toward his church
27 God's wrath and the people's joy in the destruction of Assyria

Isaiah 31

1 The prophet shows the folly and danger of trusting Egypt and forsaking God
6 He exhorts to conversion
8 He shows the fall of Assyria

Isaiah 32

1 The blessings of Christ's kingdom
9 Desolation is foreshown
14 Restoration is promised to succeed

Isaiah 33

1 God's judgments against the enemies of the church
13 The consternation of sinners and privileges of the godly

Isaiah 34

1 The judgments wherewith God revenges his church
11 The desolation of her enemies
16 The certainty of the prophecy

Isaiah 35

1 The joyful flourishing of Christ's kingdom
3 The weak are encouraged by the virtues and privileges of the Gospel

Isaiah 36

1 Sennacherib invades Judah
2 Rabshakeh sent by Sennacherib solicits the people to revolt
22 His words are told to Hezekiah

Isaiah 37

1 Hezekiah mourning sends to Isaiah to pray for them
6 Isaiah comforts them
8 Sennacherib going to encounter Tirhakah sends a blasphemous letter to Hezekiah
14 Hezekiah's prayer
21 Isaiah's prophecy of the destruction of Sennacherib and the good of Zion
36 An angel slays the Assyrians
37 Sennacherib is slain at Nineveh by his own sons.

Isaiah 38

1 Hezekiah having received a message of death by prayer has his life lengthened
8 The sun goes ten degrees backward for a sign of that promise
9 His song of thanksgiving.

Isaiah 39

1 Merodach-baladan sending to visit Hezekiah has notice of his treasures.
3 Isaiah understanding thereof foretells the Babylonian captivity.

Isaiah 40

1 The promulgation of the Gospel
3 The preaching of John Baptist foretold
9 The preaching of the apostles foretold
12 The prophet by the omnipotence of God
18 And his incomparableness
26 Comforts the people.

Isaiah 41

1 God expostulates with his people about his mercies to the church.
10 About his promises
21 And about the vanity of idols.

Isaiah 42

1 The office of Christ graced with meekness and constancy.
5 God's promise unto him.
10 An exhortation to praise God for his Gospel
13 God will manifest himself and check idolatry
18 He reproves the people of incredulity.

Isaiah 43

1 The Lord comforts the church with his promises.
8 He appeals to the people for witness of his omnipotence
14 He foretells them the destruction of Babylon
18 And his wonderful deliverance of his people
22 He reproves the people as inexcusable

Isaiah 44

1 God comforts the church with his promises
7 The vanity of idols
9 And folly of idol makers
21 He exhorts to praise God for his redemption and omnipotence

Isaiah 45

1 God calls Cyrus for his church's sake
5 By his omnipotence he challenges obedience
20 He convinces the idols of vanity by his saving power

Isaiah 46

1 The idols of Babylon could not save themselves
3 God saves his people to the end
5 Idols are not comparable to God for power
12 Or present salvation.

Isaiah 47

1 God's judgment upon Babylon and Chaldea
6 For their unmercifulness
7 Pride
10 And over-boldness
11 Shall be irresistible

Isaiah 48

1 God to convince the people of their foreknown obstinance revealed his prophecies
9 He saves them for his own sake
12 He exhorts them to obedience because of his power and providence
16 He laments their backwardness
20 He powerfully delivers his people out of Babylon

Isaiah 49

1 Christ being sent to the Jews complains of them
5 He is sent to the Gentiles with gracious promises
13 God's love is perpetual to his church
18 The ample restoration of the church
24 The powerful deliverance out of captivity

Isaiah 50

1 Christ shows Israel's Sin is not to be imputed to him
2 by his ability to save
5 By his obedience in that work
7 And by his confidence in that assistance
10 An exhortation to trust in God and not in ourselves

Isaiah 51

1 An exhortation after the pattern of Abraham to trust in Christ
3 By reason of his comfortable promises
4 Of his righteous salvation
7 And man's mortality
9 Christ by his sanctified arm defends his from the fear of man
17 He bewails the afflictions of Jerusalem
21 And promises deliverance

Isaiah 52

1 Christ persuades the church to believe his free redemption
7 To receive the ministers thereof
9 To joy in the power thereof
11 And to free themselves from bondage
13 Christ's kingdom shall be exalted

Isaiah 53

1 The prophet complaining of incredulity excuses the scandal of the cross
4 By the benefit of his passion
10 And the good success thereof

Isaiah 54

1 The prophet to comfort the Gentiles prophesies the amplitude of their church
4 Their safety
6 Their certain deliverance out of affliction
11 Their fair edification
15 And their sure preservation

Isaiah 55

1 The prophet with the promises of Christ calls to faith
6 And to repentance
8 The happy success of those who believe

Isaiah 56

1 The prophet exhorts to sanctification
3 He promises it shall be general without respect of persons
9 He protests against blind watchmen

Isaiah 57

1 The blessed death of the righteous
3 God reproves the People for their idolatry
13 He gives promises of mercy to the penitent

Isaiah 58

1 The prophet being sent to reprove hypocrisy
3 shows the difference between a counterfeit fast and a true
8 He declares what promises are due unto godliness
13 And to the keeping of the Sabbath

Isaiah 59

1 Calamities are not due to lack of saving power in God but to their own sins
16 Salvation is only of God
20 The covenant of the Redeemer

Isaiah 60

1 The glory of the church in the abundant access of the Gentiles.
15 And the great blessings after a short affliction

Isaiah 61

1 The office of Christ
4 The forwardness
7 And blessing of the faithful

Isaiah 62

1 The fervent desire of the prophet to confirm the church in God's promises.
6 The office of the ministers in preaching the Gospel
10 And preparing the people thereto

Isaiah 63

1 Christ shows who he is
2 What his victory over his enemies
7 And what his mercy toward his church
10 In his just wrath he remembers his free mercy
15 The church in her prayer
17 And complaint professes her faith

Isaiah 64

1 The church prays for the illustration of God's power
4 Celebrating God's mercy it makes confession of their natural corruptions
9 It complains of their afflictions

Isaiah 65

1 The calling of the Gentiles
2 and the rejection of the Jews for their incredulity idolatry and hypocrisy
8 A remnant shall be saved
11 Judgments on the wicked and blessings on the godly
17 The blessed state of the new Jerusalem

Isaiah 66

1 The glorious God will be served in humble sincerity
5 He comforts the humble by showing the confusion of their enemies
7 With the marvelous growth
10 And the gracious benefits of the church
15 God's severe judgments against the wicked
18 The Gentiles shall have an holy church
24 And see the damnation of the wicked

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Jeremiah 1

1 The time
4 And the calling of Jeremiah
11 His prophetical visions of an almond rod and a seething pot
15 His heavy message against Judah
17 God encourages him with his promise of assistance

Jeremiah 2

1 God having shown his former kindness
5 expostulates with the people on their causeless and unexampled revolt
14 They are the causes of their own calamities
18 The sins and idolatries of Judah
35 Her confidence is rejected.

Jeremiah 3

1 God's great mercy to Judah the polluted land
6 Judah is worse than Israel
12 The promises of the gospel to the penitent
20 Israel reproved and called by God makes a solemn confession of their sins

Jeremiah 4

1 God calls Israel by his promise
3 He exhorts Judah to repentance by fearful judgments
19 A grievous lamentation for Judah

Jeremiah 5

1 The judgments of God upon the people for their perverseness;
7 for their adultery;
10 for their impiety;
15 for their worship of idols;
19 for their contempt of God;
25 and for their great corruption in the civil state;
30 and ecclesiastical.

Jeremiah 6

1 The enemies sent against Judah
4 encourage themselves.
6 God sets them on work because of their sins.
9 The prophet laments the judgments of God because of their sins.
18 He proclaims God's wrath.
26 He calls the people to mourn for the judgment on their sins.

Jeremiah 7

1 Jeremiah is sent to call to true repentance to prevent the Jews' captivity.
8 He rejects their vain confidence
12 by the example of Shiloh.
17 He threatens them for their idolatry.
21 He rejects the sacrifices of the disobedient.
29 He exhorts to mourn for their abominations in Tophet;
32 and the judgments for the same.

Jeremiah 8

1 The calamity of the Jews both dead and alive.
4 He upbraids their foolish and shameless impenitency.
13 He shows their grievous judgment;
18 and bewails their desperate estate.

Jeremiah 9

1 Jeremiah laments the people for their manifold sins;
9 and for their judgment.
12 Disobedience is the cause of their bitter calamity.
17 He exhorts to mourn for their destruction;
23 and to trust not in themselves but in God.
25 He threatens both Jews and Gentiles.

Jeremiah 10

1 The unequal comparison of God and idols.
17 The prophet exhorts to flee from the calamity to come.
19 He laments the spoil of the tabernacle by foolish pastors.
23 He makes an humble supplication.

Jeremiah 11

1 Jeremiah proclaims God's covenant;
8 rebukes the peoples' disobeying thereof;
11 prophesies evils to come upon them;
18 and upon the men of Anathoth for conspiring to kill him.

Jeremiah 12

1 Jeremiah complaining of the prosperity of the wicked by faith sees their ruin.
5 God admonishes him of his brothers' treachery against him;
7 and laments his heritage.
14 He promises to the penitent return from captivity.

Jeremiah 13

1 By the type of a linen belt hidden at Euphrates
9 God prefigures the destruction of his people.
12 By the parable of bottles filled with wine he foretells their drunkenness in misery.
15 He exhorts to prevent their future judgments.
22 He shows their abominations are the cause thereof.

Jeremiah 14

1 The grievous famine
7 causes Jeremiah to pray.
10 The Lord will not be entreated for the people.
13 false prophets are no excuse for them.
17 Jeremiah is moved to complain for them.

Jeremiah 15

1 The utter rejection and manifold judgments of the people.
10 Jeremiah complaining of their spite receives a promise for himself;
12 and a threatening for them.
15 He prays;
19 and receives a gracious promise.

Jeremiah 16

1 The prophet under the types of abstaining from marriage
8 from houses of mourning and feasting foreshows the utter ruin of the Jews;
10 because they were worse than their fathers.
14 Their return from captivity shall be stranger than their deliverance out of Egypt.
16 God will doubly recompense their idolatry.

Jeremiah 17

1 The captivity of Judah for her sin.
5 Trust in man is cursed;
7 in God is blessed.
9 The deceitful heart cannot deceive God.
12 The salvation of God.
15 The prophet complains of the mockers of his prophecy.
19 He is sent to renew the covenant in hallowing the Sabbath.

Jeremiah 18

1 Under the type of a potter is shown God's absolute power in disposing of nations.
11 Judgments threatened to Judah for her strange revolt.
18 Jeremiah prays against his conspirators.

Jeremiah 19

1 Under the type of breaking a potter's vessel is foreshown the desolation of the Jews

Jeremiah 20

1 Pashur smiting Jeremiah receives a new name and a fearful doom.
7 Jeremiah complains of contempt;
10 of treachery;
14 and of his birth.

Jeremiah 21

1 Zedikiah sends to Jeremiah to enquire the event of Nebuchadnezzar's war.
3 Jeremiah foretells a hard siege and miserable captivity.
8 He counsels the people to fall to the Chaldeans;
11 and upbraids the King's house.

Jeremiah 22

1 He exhorts to repentance with promises and threats.
10 The judgment of Shallum;
13 of Jehoiakim;
20 and of Coniah.

Jeremiah 23

1 He prophesies a restoration of the scattered flock.
5 Christ shall rule and save them.
9 Against false prophets;
33 and mockers of the true prophets.

Jeremiah 24

1 Under the type of good and bad figs
4 he foreshows the restoration of those who were in captivity;
8 and the desolation of Zedekiah and the rest.

Jeremiah 25

1 Jeremiah reproving the Jews' disobedience to the prophets
8 foretells the seventy years' captivity;
12 and after that the destruction of Babylon.
15 Under the type of a cup of wine he foreshows the destruction of all nations.
34 The howling of the shepherds.

Jeremiah 26

1 Jeremiah by promises and threats exhorts to repentance.
8 He is therefore apprehended
10 and arraigned.
12 His apology.
16 He is quit in judgment by the example of Micah
20 and of Urijah
24 and by the care of Ahikam.

Jeremiah 27

1 By the type of bonds and yokes he prophesies the subduing of the neighbor kings
8 He exhorts them to yield and not to believe the false prophets.
12 The like he does to Zedekiah.
19 He foretells the remnant of the vessels shall be carried to Babylon

Jeremiah 28

1 Hananiah prophesies falsely the return of the vessels and of Jeconiah
3 and there continue until the day of visitation.
5 Jeremiah wishing it to be true shows that the event will declare the true prophets.
10 Hananiah breaks Jeremiah's yoke.
12 Jeremiah tells of an iron yoke;
15 and foretells Hananiah's death.

Jeremiah 29

1 Jeremiah sends a letter to the captives in Babylon to be quiet there
8 and not to believe the dreams of their prophets;
10 and that they shall return with grace after seventy years.
15 He foretells the destruction of the rest for their disobedience.
20 He shows the fearful end of Ahab and Zedekiah two false prophets.
24 Shemaiah writes a letter against Jeremiah.
30 Jeremiah foretells his doom.

Jeremiah 30

1 God shows Jeremiah the return of the Jews.
4 After their trouble they shall have deliverance.
10 He comforts Jacob.
18 Their return shall be gracious.
23 Wrath shall fall on the wicked.

Jeremiah 31

1 The restoration of Israel.
10 The publication thereof.
15 Rahel mourning is comforted.
18 Ephraim repenting is brought home again.
22 Christ is promised.
27 His care over the church.
31 His new covenant.
35 The stability
38 and amplitude of the church.

Jeremiah 32

1 Jeremiah being imprisoned by Zedekiah for his prophecy
6 buys Hanameel's field.
13 Baruch must preserve the evidences as tokens of the people's return.
16 Jeremiah in his prayer complains to God.
26 God confirms the captivity for their sins;
36 and promises a gracious return.

Jeremiah 33

1 God promises to the captivity a gracious return;
9 a joyful state;
12 a settled government;
15 Christ the branch of righteousness;
17 a continuance of kingdom and priesthood;
19 and a stability of a blessed seed.

Jeremiah 34

1 Jeremiah prophesies the captivity of Zedekiah and the city.
8 The princes and the people having dismissed their bond-servants
11 contrary to the covenant of God re-assume them.
12 Jeremiah gives them and Zedekiah into the hands of their enemies.

Jeremiah 35

1 By the obedience of the Rechabites
12 Jeremiah condemns the disobedience of the Jews.
18 God blesses the Rechabites for their obedience.

Jeremiah 36

1 Jeremiah causes Baruch to write his prophesy
5 and publicly to read it.
11 The princes having intelligence thereof by Michaiah
14 send Jehudi to fetch the roll and read it.
19 They will Baruch to hide himself and Jeremiah.
20 The king Jehoiakim being certified thereof hears part of it and burns the roll.
27 Jeremiah denounces his judgment.
32 Baruch writes a new copy.

Jeremiah 37

1 The Egyptians having raised the siege of the Chaldeans
3 king Zedekiah sends to Jeremiah to pray for the people.
6 Jeremiah prophesies the Chaldeans' certain return and victory.
11 He is taken for a fugitive beaten and put in prison.
16 He assures Zedekiah of the captivity.
18 Entreating for his liberty he obtains some favor.

Jeremiah 38

1 Jeremiah by a false suggestion is put into the dungeon of Malchiah.
7 Ebed-Melech by suit gets him some enlargement.
14 Upon secret conference he counsels the king by yielding to save his life.
24 By the king's instructions he conceals the conference from the princes.

Jeremiah 39

1 Jerusalem is taken.
4 Zedekiah is made blind and sent to Babylon.
8 The city laid in ruins
9 and the people captivated.
11 Nebuchadrezzar's charge for the good usage of Jeremiah.
15 God's promise to Ebed Melech.

Jeremiah 40

1 Jeremiah being set free by Nebuzaradan goes to Gedaliah.
7 The dispersed Jews repair unto him.
13 Johanan revealing Ishmael's conspiracy is not believed.

Jeremiah 41

1 Ishmael treacherously killing Gedaliah and others
7 purposes with the residue to flee unto the Ammonites.
11 Johanan rescues the captives and is minded to flee into Egypt.

Jeremiah 42

1 Johanan desires Jeremiah to enquire of God promising obedience to his will.
7 Jeremiah assures him of safety in Judea;
13 and destruction in Egypt.
19 He reproves their hypocrisy.

Jeremiah 43

1 Johanan discrediting Jeremiah's prophecy carries him and the rest in Egypt.
8 Jeremiah prophesies by a type the conquest of Egypt by the Babylonians.

Jeremiah 44

1 Jeremiah expresses the desolation of Judah for their idolatry
11 He prophesies the destruction of those who commit idolatry in Egypt
15 The obstinacy of the Jews
20 For which Jeremiah threatens them
29 and for a sign prophesies the destruction of Egypt

Jeremiah 45

1 Baruch being dismayed
4 Jeremiah instructs and comforts him

Jeremiah 46

1 Jeremiah prophesies the overthrow of Pharaoh's army at Euphrates
13 and the conquest of Egypt by Nebuchadnezzar
27 He comforts Jacob in his chastisement

Jeremiah 47

1 The destruction of the Philistines

Jeremiah 48

1 The judgment of Moab
7 for their pride
11 for their security
14 for their carnal confidence
26 and for their contempt of God and his people
47 The restoration of Moab

Jeremiah 49

1 The judgment of the Ammonites
6 Their restoration
7 The judgment of Edom
23 of Damascus
28 of Kedar
30 of Hazor
34 and of Elam
39 The restoration of Elam

Jeremiah 50

1 The judgment of Babylon and the redemption of Israel

Jeremiah 51

1 The severe judgment of God against Babylon in revenge of Israel
59 Jeremiah delivers the book of this prophecy to Seraiah to be cast into Euphrates
64 in token of the perpetual sinking of Babylon

Jeremiah 52

1 Zedekiah rebels
4 Jerusalem is besieged and taken
8 Zedekiah's sons killed and his own eyes put out
12 Nebuzaradan burns and spoils the city
24 He carries away the captives
28 The number of Jews carried captive
31 Evil-Merodach advances Jehoiachin

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Lamentations 1

1 The miseries of Jerusalem and of the Jews lamented
12 The attention of beholders demanded to this unprecedented case
18 The justice of God acknowledged and his mercy supplicated.

Lamentations 2

1 Jeremiah laments the misery of Jerusalem
20 He complains thereof to God

Lamentations 3

1 The prophet bewails his own calamities
22 By the mercies of God he nourishes his hope
37 He acknowledges God's justice
55 He prays for deliverance
64 And vengeance on his enemies

Lamentations 4

1 Zion bewails her pitiful estate
13 She confesses her sins
21 Edom is threatened and Zion comforted.

Lamentations 5

1 A complaint of Zion in prayer unto God.

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Ezekiel 1

1 The time of Ezekiel's prophecy at Chebar.
4 His vision of four cherubim;
15 of the four wheels;
26 and of the glory of God.

Ezekiel 2

1 Ezekiel's commission
6 His instruction
9 The scroll of his heavy prophecy

Ezekiel 3

1 Ezekiel eats the scroll
4 God encourages him
15 God shows him the rule of prophecy
22 God shuts and opens the prophet's mouth

Ezekiel 4

1 Under type of a siege is shown the time from the defection of Jeroboam to captivity
9 By the provision of the siege is shown the hardness of the famine

Ezekiel 5

1 Under the type of hair
5 is shown the judgment of Jerusalem for their rebellion
12 by famine sword and dispersion

Ezekiel 6

1 The judgment of Israel for their idolatry
8 A remnant shall be blessed
11 The faithful are exhorted to lament their abominations and calamities

Ezekiel 7

1 The final desolation of Israel
16 The mournful repentance from that escape
20 The enemies defile the sanctuary because of the Israelites' abominations
23 Under the type of a chain is shown the miserable captivity of all orders of men

Ezekiel 8

1 Ezekiel in a vision of God at Jerusalem
5 is shown the image of jealousy
7 the chambers of imagery
13 the mourners for Tammuz
16 the worshippers toward the sun
17 God's wrath for their idolatry

Ezekiel 9

1 A vision whereby is shown the preservation of some
5 and the destruction of the rest
8 God cannot be entreated for them

Ezekiel 10

1 The vision of the coals of fire to be scattered over the city
8 The vision of the cherubim

Ezekiel 11

1 The presumption of the princes
4 Their sin and judgment
13 Ezekiel complaining God shows him his purpose in saving a remnant
22 The glory of God leaves the city
24 Ezekiel is returned to the captivity

Ezekiel 12

1 Under the type of Ezekiel's removing
8 is shown the captivity of Zedekiah
17 Ezekiel's trembling shows the Jews' desolation
21 The Jews' presumptuous proverb is reproved
26 The speediness of the vision

Ezekiel 13

1 The reproof of false prophets
10 and their untempered mortar
17 Of prophecies and their pillows

Ezekiel 14

1 God answers idolaters according to their own heart
6 They are exhorted to repent for fear of judgments by means of seduced prophets
12 God's irrevocable sentence of famine
15 of wild beasts
17 of the sword
19 and of pestilence
22 A remnant shall be reserved for example of others

Ezekiel 15

1 By the unfitness of the vine branch for any work
6 is shown the rejection of Jerusalem

Ezekiel 16

1 Under the parable of a wretched infant is shown the natural state of Jerusalem
6 God's extraordinary love toward her
15 Her grievous judgment
35 Her sin equal to her mother
46 and exceeding her sisters Sodom and Samaria
59 calls for judgments
60 Mercy is promised her in the end

Ezekiel 17

1 Under the parable of two eagles and a vine
11 is shown God's judgment upon Jerusalem for revolting from Babylon to Egypt
22 God promises to plant the cedar of the Gospel

Ezekiel 18

1 God defends his justice
31 and exhorts to repentance

Ezekiel 19

1 A lamentation for the princes of Israel by the parable of a lion whelping in a pit
10 and for Jerusalem under the parable of a wasted vine

Ezekiel 20

1 God refuses to be consulted by the elders of Israel
4 He shows the story of their rebellions in Egypt
19 in the desert
27 and in the land
33 He promises to gather them by the Gospel
45 Under the name of a forest he shows the destruction of Jerusalem

Ezekiel 21

1 Ezekiel prophesies against Jerusalem with a sign of sighing
8 The sharp and bright sword
18 against Jerusalem
25 against the kingdom
28 and against the Ammonites

Ezekiel 22

1 A catalogue of sins in Jerusalem and the dispersion of the Jews in consequence
17 God will burn them as dross in his furnace
23 The general corruption of prophets priests princes and the people

Ezekiel 23

1 The unfaithfulness of Aholah and Aholibah
23 Aholibah is to be plagued by her lovers
36 The prophet reproves the adulteries of them both
45 and shows their judgments

Ezekiel 24

1 Under the parable of a boiling pot
6 is shown the irrevocable destruction of Jerusalem
15 By the sign of Ezekiel not mourning for the death of his wife
19 is shown the calamity of the Jews to be beyond all sorrow

Ezekiel 25

1 God's vengeance for their insolence against the Jews upon the Ammonites
8 upon Moab and Seir
12 upon Edom
15 and upon the Philistines

Ezekiel 26

1 Tyrus for insulting Jerusalem is threatened with destruction
7 The power of Nebuchadnezzar against her
15 The mourning and astonishment of the sea at her fall

Ezekiel 27

1 The riches and commerce of Tyrus
26 The great and irrecoverable fall thereof

Ezekiel 28

1 God's judgment upon the prince of Tyrus for his sacrilegious pride
11 A lamentation of his great glory corrupted by Sidon
20 The judgment of Zion
24 The restoration of Israel

Ezekiel 29

1 The judgment of Pharaoh for his treachery to Israel
8 The desolation of Egypt
13 The restoration thereof after forty years
17 Egypt the reward of Nebuchadnezzar
21 Israel shall be restored

Ezekiel 30

1 The desolation of Egypt and her helpers
20 The arm of Babylon shall be strengthened to break the arm of Egypt.

Ezekiel 31

1 A relation unto Pharaoh
3 of the glory of Assyria
10 and the fall thereof for pride
18 The like destruction of Egypt

Ezekiel 32

1 A lamentation for the fearful fall of Egypt
11 The sword of Babylon shall destroy it
17 It shall be brought down to hell among all the uncircumcised nations

Ezekiel 33

1 According to the duty of a watchman in warning the people
7 Ezekiel is admonished of his duty
10 God shows the justice of his ways toward the penitent and toward revolters
17 He maintains his justice
21 Upon the news of the taking of Jerusalem
25 he prophecies the desolation of the land
30 God's judgment upon the mockers of the prophets

Ezekiel 34

1 A reproof of the shepherds
7 God's judgment against them
11 His providence over his flock
20 The kingdom of Christ

Ezekiel 35

1 The judgment of mount Seir for their hatred of Israel and insulting over their distress

Ezekiel 36

1 The land of Israel is comforted by destruction of the heathen who spitefully used it
8 and by the blessings of God promised unto it
16 Israel was rejected for their sin
21 and shall be restored without their desert
25 The blessings of Christ's kingdom

Ezekiel 37

1 By the resurrection of dry bones
11 the dead hope of Israel is revived
15 By the uniting of two sticks
18 is shown the incorporation of Israel into Judah
21 The promises of Christ's kingdom

Ezekiel 38

1 The army
8 and malice of Gog
14 God's judgment against him

Ezekiel 39

1 God's judgment upon Gog
8 Israel's victory
11 Gog's burial in Hamon-gog
17 The feast of the fowls
21 Israel having been plagued for their sins
25 shall be gathered again with eternal favor

Ezekiel 40

1 The time manner and end of the vision of the city and temple
6 The description of the east gate of the outer court
20 of the north gate
24 of the south gate
27 of the south gate of the inner court
32 of the east gate
35 and of the north gate
39 Eight tables
44 The chambers
48 The porch of the house

Ezekiel 41

1 The measures parts chambers and ornaments of the temple

Ezekiel 42

1 The chambers for the priests
13 The use thereof
15 The measures of the outward court

Ezekiel 43

1 The returning of the glory of God into the temple
7 The sin of Israel hindered God's presence
10 The prophet exhorts them to repentance and observation of the law of the house
13 The measures
18 and ordinances of the altar

Ezekiel 44

1 The east gate assigned only to the prince
4 The priests reproved for polluting the sanctuary
9 Idolaters incapable of the priests office
15 The sons of Zadok are accepted thereto
17 Ordinances for the priests

Ezekiel 45

1 The portion of land for the sanctuary
6 for the city
7 and for the prince
9 Ordinances for the prince

Ezekiel 46

1 Ordinances for the prince in his worship
9 and for the people
16 An order for the prince's inheritance
19 The courts for boiling and baking

Ezekiel 47

1 The vision of the holy waters
6 The virtue of them
13 The borders of the land
22 The division of it by lot

Ezekiel 48

1 The portions of the twelve tribes;
8 of the sanctuary;
15 of the city and suburbs;
21 and of the prince.
23 The portions of the twelve tribes.
30 The dimensions and gates of the city.

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Daniel 1

1 Jehoiakim's captivity.
3 Ashpenaz takes Daniel Hananiah Mishael and Azariah.
8 They refusing the king's portion do prosper with pulse and water.
17 Their proficiency in wisdom.

Daniel 2

1 Nebuchadnezzar forgetting his dream
5 requires it of the Chaldeans by promises and threats.
10 They acknowledging their inability are judged to die.
14 Daniel obtaining some respite finds the dream.
19 He blesses God.
24 He staying the decree is brought to the king.
31 The dream.
36 The interpretation.
46 Daniel's advancement.

Daniel 3

1 Nebuchadnezzar dedicates a golden image in Dura.
3 They being threatened make a good confession.
8 Shadrach Meshach and Abednego are accused for not worshipping the image.
19 They are cast into the furnace
24 from which God delivers them.
28 Nebuchadnezzar seeing the miracle blesses God and advances them.

Daniel 4

1 Nebuchadnezzar confesses God's kingdom
4 makes relation of his dreams which the magicians could not interpret.
8 Daniel hears the dream.
19 He interprets it.
28 The dream fulfilled.

Daniel 5

1 Belshazzar's impious feast.
5 A hand-writing unknown to the magicians troubles the king.
10 At the commendation of the queen Daniel is brought.
17 He reproving the king of pride and idolatry
25 reads and interprets the writing.
30 The monarchy is translated to the Medes

Daniel 6

1 Daniel is made chief of the presidents.
4 They conspiring against him obtain an idolatrous decree.
10 Daniel accused of the breach thereof is cast into the lion's den.
18 Daniel is saved;
24 his adversaries devoured;
25 and God magnified by a decree.

Daniel 7

1 Daniel's vision of the four beasts
9 and of God's kingdom.
15 The interpretation thereof.

Daniel 8

1 Daniel's vision of the ram and he goat.
13 The two thousand three hundred days of the suspension of the daily sacrifice.
15 Gabriel comforts Daniel and interprets the vision.

Daniel 9

1 Daniel considering the time of the captivity
3 makes confession of sins
16 and prays for the restoration of Jerusalem.
20 Gabriel informs him of the seventy weeks.

Daniel 10

1 Daniel having humbled himself sees a vision.
10 Being troubled with fear he is comforted by the angel.

Daniel 11

1 The overthrow of Persia by the king of Grecia.
5 Leagues and conflicts between the kings of the south and of the north.
30 The invasion and tyranny of the Romans.

Daniel 12

1 Michael shall deliver Israel from their troubles.
5 Daniel is informed of the times.

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Hosea 1

1 Hosea to show God's judgment for spiritual unfaithfulness takes Gomer
4 and has by her Jezreel;
6 Loruhamah;
8 and Lo-Ammi.
10 The restoration of Judah and Israel under one head.

Hosea 2

1 The idolatry of the people.
6 God's judgments against them.
14 His promises of reconciliation with them.

Hosea 3

1 The Lord's intended future kindness to Israel not withstanding their wickedness
2 illustrated by the emblem of Hosea's conduct toward his adulterous wife.
4 The desolation of Israel before their restoration.

Hosea 4

1 God denounces judgments on Israel for their aggravated impieties and iniquities.
12 He exposes the ignorance and wickedness of the priests
13 and moral dissolution of the people
14 he will leave their wives and daughters to commit lewdness without present punishment.
15 He warns Judah not to imitate Israel's crimes which are still further reproved.

Hosea 5

1 The judgments of God are denounced against the priests people and princes
9 both of Israel and Judah for their manifold sins.
15 An intimation is given of mercy on their repentance.

Hosea 6

1 Exhortations to repent and hope in God.
4 A lamentation over those who had sinned after conviction.
5 Reproofs of obstinate sinners and threats against them.

Hosea 7

1 A reproof of manifold sins.
11 God's wrath against them for their hypocrisy.

Hosea 8

1 Destruction is threatened both to Israel and Judah for their impiety and idolatry.

Hosea 9

1 The distress and captivity of Israel for their sins.

Hosea 10

1 Israel is reproved and threatened for their impiety and idolatry
12 and exhorted to repentance.

Hosea 11

1 The ingratitude of Israel unto God for his benefits.
5 His judgment.
8 God's mercy toward them.
12 Israel's falsehood and Judah's fidelity.

Hosea 12

1 A reproof of Ephraim Judah and Jacob.
3 By former favors he exhorts to repentance.
7 Ephraim's sins provoke God.

Hosea 13

1 Ephraim's glory vanishes.
4 God's anger.
9 God's mercy.
15 The judgment of Samaria.

Hosea 14

1 An exhortation to repentance.
4 A promise of God's blessing.

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Joel 1

1 Joel declaring various judgments of God exhorts to observe them
8 and to mourn.
14 He prescribes a solemn fast to deprecate those judgments.

Joel 2

1 He shows unto Zion the terribleness of God's judgment.
12 He exhorts to repentance;
15 prescribes a fast;
18 promises a blessing thereon.
21 He comforts Zion with present
28 and future blessings.

Joel 3

1 God's judgments against the enemies of his people.
9 God will be known in his judgment.
18 His blessing upon the church.

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Amos 1

1 The time when Amos prophesied.
3 He shows God's judgment upon Syria
6 upon the Philistines
9 upon Tyrus
11 upon Edom
13 upon Ammon.

Amos 2

1 God's judgments upon Moab
4 upon Judah
6 and upon Israel.
9 God complains of their ingratitude.

Amos 3

1 The necessity of God's judgment against Israel.
9 The publication of it with the causes thereof.

Amos 4

1 He reproves Israel for oppression
4 for idolatry
6 and for their incorrigibleness.

Amos 5

1 A lamentation for Israel.
4 An exhortation to repentance.
21 God rejects their hypocritical service.

Amos 6

1 The wantonness of Israel
7 shall be plagued with desolation;
12 and their incorrigibleness shall end in affliction.

Amos 7

1 The judgments of the grasshoppers
4 and of the fire are diverted by the prayer of Amos.
7 By the wall of a plumb line is signified the rejection of Israel.
10 Amaziah complains of Amos.
14 Amos shows his calling
16 and Amaziah's judgment.

Amos 8

1 By a basket of summer fruit is shown the approach of Israel's end.
4 Oppression is reproved.
11 A famine of the word of God threatened.

Amos 9

1 The certainty of the desolation.
11 The restoring of the tabernacle of David.

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Obadiah 1

1 The destruction of Edom
3 for their pride
10 and for their wrong unto Jacob.
17 The salvation and victory of Jacob.

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Jonah 1

1 Jonah sent to Nineveh flees to Tarshish.
4 He is betrayed by a great storm;
11 thrown into the sea;
17 and swallowed by a fish.

Jonah 2

1 The prayer of Jonah.
10 He is delivered out of the belly of the fish.

Jonah 3

1 Jonah sent again preaches to the Ninevites.
5 Upon their repentance
10 God relents.

Jonah 4

1 Jonah repining at God's mercy
4 is reproved by the type of a withering vine.

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Micah 1

1 The time when Micah prophesied.
2 He shows the wrath of God against Jacob for idolatry.
10 He exhorts to mourning.

Micah 2

1 Against oppression.
4 A lamentation.
7 A reproof of injustice and idolatry.
12 A promise to restore Jacob.

Micah 3

1 The cruelty of the princes.
5 The falsehood of the prophets.
8 The false security of them both.

Micah 4

1 The glory
5 and the peace of Christ's kingdom.
6 The restoration
11 and victory of the church.

Micah 5

1 The birth of Christ.
4 His kingdom.
8 His conquest.

Micah 6

1 God's punishment for ingratitude;
6 for ignorance
10 for injustice;
16 and for idolatry.

Micah 7

1 The church complaining of her small number
3 and the general corruption
5 puts her confidence not in man but in God.
8 She triumphs over her enemies.
14 She prays to God.
15 God comforts her by promises of confusion to her enemies;
18 and by his mercies.

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Nahum 1

1 The majesty of God in goodness to his people and severity against his enemies.

Nahum 2

1 The fearful and victorious armies of God against Nineveh.

Nahum 3

1 The destruction of Nineveh.

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Habakkuk 1

1 Unto Habakkuk complaining of the iniquity of the land
5 is shown the fearful vengeance by the Chaldeans.
12 He complains that vengeance should be executed by them who are far worse.

Habakkuk 2

1 Unto Habakkuk waiting for an answer is shown that he must wait by faith.
5 The judgment upon the Chaldean for unsatiableness
9 for covetousness
12 for cruelty
15 for drunkenness
18 and for idolatry.

Habakkuk 3

1 Habakkuk in his prayer trembles at God's majesty.
17 The confidence of his faith.

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Zephaniah 1

1 The time when Zephaniah prophesied.
2 God's severe judgments against Judah.

Zephaniah 2

1 An exhortation to repentance.
4 The judgment of the Philistines
8 of Moab and Ammon
12 of Ethiopia
13 and of Assyria.

Zephaniah 3

1 A sharp reproof of Jerusalem for various sins.
8 An exhortation to wait for the restoration of Israel
14 and to rejoice for their salvation by God.

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Haggai 1

1 The time when Haggai prophesied.
2 He reproves the people for neglecting the building of the house.
7 He incites them to the building.
12 He promises them being forward God's assistance.

Haggai 2

1 He encourages the people to the work
4 by promise of greater glory to the second temple than was in the first.
10 In the type of holy things and unclean he shows their sins hindered the work.
20 God's promise to Zerubbabel.

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Zechariah 1

1 Zechariah exhorts to repentance.
7 The vision of the horses.
12 At the prayer of the angel comfortable promises are made to Jerusalem.
18 The vision of the four horns and the four carpenters.

Zechariah 2

1 God in the care of Jerusalem sends to measure it.
6 The redemption of Zion.
10 The promise of God's presence.

Zechariah 3

1 Under the type of Joshua the high priest receiving clean garments
6 and a covenant of promise
8 Christ the Branch and Cornerstone is promised.

Zechariah 4

1 By the golden candlestick is foreshown the good success of Zerubbabel's foundation;
11 by the two olive trees the two anointed ones.

Zechariah 5

1 By the flying scroll is shown the curse of thieves and swearers;
5 and by a woman pressed in an ephah the final judgment of wickedness.

Zechariah 6

1 The vision of the four chariots.
9 By the crowns of Joshua are shown the temple and kingdom of Christ the Branch.

Zechariah 7

1 The captives enquire concerning the set fasts.
4 Zechariah reproves the hypocrisy of their fasting.
8 Sin the cause of their captivity.

Zechariah 8

1 The restoration of Jerusalem.
9 They are encouraged to build the temple by God's favor to them.
16 Good works are required of them.
18 Joy and blessing are promised.

Zechariah 9

1 God defends his church.
9 Zion is exhorted to rejoice for the coming of Christ and his peaceable kingdom.
12 God's promises of victory and defense.

Zechariah 10

1 God is to be sought unto and not idols.
3 As he visited his flock for sin so he will save and restore them.

Zechariah 11

1 The destruction of Jerusalem.
3 The elect being cared for the rest are rejected.
10 The staves of Beauty and Bands broken by the rejection of Christ.
15 The type and curse of a foolish shepherd.

Zechariah 12

1 Jerusalem a cup of trembling to herself
3 and a burdensome stone to her adversaries.
6 The victorious restoring of Judah.
10 The repentance of Jerusalem.

Zechariah 13

1 The fountain of purgation for Jerusalem
2 from idolatry and false prophecy.
7 The death of Christ and the trial of a third part.

Zechariah 14

1 The destroyers of Jerusalem destroyed.
3 The coming of Christ and the graces of his kingdom.
12 The plague of Jerusalem's enemies.
16 The remnant shall turn to the Lord;
20 and their spoils shall be holy.

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Malachi 1

1 Malachi complains of Israel's unkindness;
2 of their irreverence and profaneness.

Malachi 2

1 He sharply reproves the priests for neglecting their covenant;
10 and the people for marrying strange wives;
13 and for putting away their former ones
17 and for infidelity.

Malachi 3

1 Of the messenger majesty and grace of Christ.
7 Of the rebellion
8 sacrilege
13 and infidelity of the people.
16 The promise of blessing to those who fear God.

Malachi 4

1 God's judgment on the wicked;
2 and his blessing on the good.
4 He exhorts to the study of the law;
5 and tells of Elijah's coming and office.

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Matthew 1

1 The genealogy of Jesus from Abraham to Joseph.
18 He is miraculously conceived of the Holy Spirit by the Virgin Mary.
19 The angel satisfies the doubts of Joseph
21 and declares the names and office of Jesus;
25 Jesus is born

Matthew 2

1 The wise men from the east enquire after Jesus;
3 at which Herod is alarmed.
9 They are directed by a star to Bethlehem worship him and offer their presents.
13 Joseph flees into Egypt with Jesus and his mother.
16 Herod slays the children;
20 himself dies.
23 Jesus is brought back again into Galilee to Nazareth.

Matthew 3

1 John preaches: his office life and baptism.
7 He reprimands the Pharisees
13 and baptizes Jesus in Jordan.

Matthew 4

1 Jesus fasting forty days
3 is tempted by the devil and ministered unto by angels.
12 He dwells in Capernaum;
17 begins to preach;
18 calls Peter and Andrew
21 James and John;
23 teaches and heals all the diseased.

Matthew 5

1 Jesus' sermon on the mount:
3 The Beattitudes;
13 the salt of the earth;
14 the light of the world.
17 He came to fulfill the law.
21 What it is to kill;
27 to commit adultery;
33 to swear.
38 He exhorts to forgive wrong
43 to love our enemies;
48 and to labor after perfection.

Matthew 6

1 Giving to the Needy
5 The Lord's Prayer
16 Proper Fasting
19 Store up Treasures in Heaven
25 Do Not Worry
33 but seek God's kingdom.

Matthew 7

1 Do Not Judge
7 Ask Seek Knock
13 Enter through the Narrow Gate
15 A Tree and Its Fruit
24 The Wise and the Foolish Builders
28 Jesus ends his sermon and the people are astonished.

Matthew 8

1 Jesus cleanses the leper;
5 heals the centurion's servant
14 Peter's mother in law
16 and many others;
18 shows the cost of following him;
23 stills the storm on the sea;
28 drives the demons out of two men possessed;
31 and tells them to go into the pigs.

Matthew 9

1 Jesus heals a paralytic
9 calls Matthew from the receipt of custom;
10 eats with tax collectors and sinners;
14 defends his disciples for not fasting;
20 cures the sick woman;
23 raises Jairus' daughter from death;
27 gives sight to two blind men;
32 heals a mute man possessed of a demon;
36 and has compassion on the multitude.

Matthew 10

1 Jesus sends out his apostles enabling them with power to do miracles;
5 giving them their charge teaches them;
16 comforts them against persecutions;
40 and promises a blessing to those who receive them.

Matthew 11

1 John sends his disciples to Jesus.
7 Jesus' testimony concerning John.
16 The perverse judgment of the people concerning the Son.
20 Jesus upbraids Korazin Bethsaida and Capernaum;
25 and praising his Father's wisdom in revealing the Gospel to the simple
28 he calls to him those who are weary and burdened.

Matthew 12

1 Jesus reproves the blindness of the Pharisees concerning the Sabbath
3 by scripture
9 by reason
13 and by a miracle.
22 He heals a man possessed that was blind and mute;
24 and confronting the absurd charge of casting out demons by Beelzebub
32 he shows that blasphemy against the Holy Spirit shall never be forgiven.
36 Account shall be made of idle words.
38 He rebukes the unfaithful who seek after a sign
46 and shows who is his brother sister and mother.

Matthew 13

1 The parable of the sower and the seed;
18 the explanation of it.
24 The parable of the weeds;
31 of the mustard seed;
33 of the leaven;
36 explanation of the parable of the weeds.
44 The parable of the hidden treasure;
45 of the pearl;
47 of the drag net cast into the sea.
53 Jesus is a prophet without honor in his own country.

Matthew 14

1 Herod's opinion of Jesus.
3 Wherefore John Baptist was beheaded.
13 Jesus departs into a solitary place
15 where he feeds five thousand men with five loves and two fishes.
22 He walks on the sea to his disciples;
34 and landing at Gennesaret
35 heals the sick who touch of the hem of his garment.

Matthew 15

1 Jesus reproves the Scribes and Pharisees
7 for transgressing God's commandments through their own traditions;
10 teaches how that which goes into the mouth does not defile a man.
21 He heals the daughter of the woman of Canaan
29 and other great multitudes;
32 and with seven loaves and a few small fish feeds four thousand men

Matthew 16

1 The Pharisees require a sign.
5 Jesus warns his disciples of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
13 The people's opinion of Jesus
16 and Peter's confession of him.
21 Jesus foretells his death;
23 reproves Peter for dissuading him from it;
24 and admonishes those who will follow him to bear the cross.

Matthew 17

1 The transfiguration of Jesus.
14 He heals the boy with a demon
22 foretells his own passion
24 and pays tribute.

Matthew 18

1 Jesus warns his disciples to be humble and harmless
7 to avoid offenses
10 and not to despise the little ones;
15 teaches how we are to deal with our brothers when they offend us
21 and how often to forgive them;
23 which he sets forth by a parable of the king who took account of his servants
32 and punished him who showed no mercy to his fellow servant.

Matthew 19

1 Jesus heals the sick;
3 answers the Pharisees concerning divorce;
10 shows when marriage is necessary;
13 receives the little children;
16 instructs the young man how to attain eternal life;
20 and how to be perfect;
23 tells his disciples how hard it is for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God;
27 and promises reward to those who forsake all to follow him.

Matthew 20

1 Jesus by the parable of the laborers in the vineyard shows that God is debtor unto no man;
17 foretells his passion;
20 by answering the mother of Zebedee's children teaches his disciples to be humble;
29 and gives two blind men their sight.

Matthew 21

1 Jesus rides into Jerusalem upon a donkey
12 drives the buyers and sellers out of the temple;
17 curses the fig tree;
23 puts to silence the priests and elders
28 and rebukes them by the parable of the two sons
33 and the husbandmen who slew such as were sent to them.

Matthew 22

1 The parable of the marriage of the king's son.
9 The vocation of the Gentiles.
12 The punishment of him who lacked a wedding garment.
15 Tribute ought to be paid to Caesar.
23 Jesus confutes the Sadducees for the resurrection;
34 answers which is the first and great commandment;
41 and puzzles the Pharisees by a question about the Messiah.

Matthew 23

1 Jesus admonishes the people to follow good doctrine not bad examples
5 His disciples must beware of their ambition.
13 He denounces eight woes against their hypocrisy and blindness
34 and prophesies of the destruction of Jerusalem.

Matthew 24

1 Jesus foretells the destruction of the temple;
3 what and how great calamities shall be before it;
29 the signs of his coming to judgment.
36 And because that day and hour are unknown
42 we ought to watch like good servants expecting our Master's coming.

Matthew 25

1 The parable of the ten virgins
14 and of the talents.
31 Also the description of the last judgment.

Matthew 26

1 Jesus foretells his own death.
3 The rulers conspire against him.
6 The woman anoints his feet.
14 Judas bargains to betray him.
17 Jesus eats the Passover;
26 institutes his holy supper;
30 foretells the desertion of his disciples and Peter's denial;
36 prays in the garden;
47 and being betrayed by a kiss
57 is carried to Caiaphas
69 and denied by Peter.

Matthew 27

1 Jesus is delivered bound to Pilate.
3 Judas hangs himself.
19 Pilate admonished of his wife
20 and being urged by the multitude washes his hands and releases Barabbas.
27 Jesus is mocked and crowned with thorns;
33 crucified;
39 reviled;
50 dies and is buried;
62 his tomb is sealed and watched.

Matthew 28

1 Christ's resurrection is declared by an angel to the women.
9 He himself appears unto them.
11 The chief priests pay the soldiers to say that he was stolen out of his tomb.
16 Christ appears to his disciples
18 and sends them to baptize and teach all nations.

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Mark 1

1 The office of John the Baptist.
9 Jesus is baptized;
12 tempted;
14 he preaches;
16 calls Peter Andrew James and John;
23 heals one that had a demon;
29 Peter's mother in law;
32 many diseased persons;
40 and cleanses the leper.

Mark 2

1 Jesus followed by multitudes
3 heals a paralytic;
13 calls Matthew;
15 eats with tax collectors and sinners;
18 excuses his disciples for not fasting;
23 and for picking the heads of grain on the Sabbath day.

Mark 3

1 Jesus heals the withered hand
10 and many other infirmities;
11 rebukes the unclean spirit;
13 chooses his twelve apostles;
22 convinces the blasphemy of casting out demons by Beelzebub;
31 and shows who are his brother sister and mother.

Mark 4

1 The parable of the sower
14 and the meaning thereof.
21 We must communicate the light of our knowledge to others.
26 The parable of the seed growing secretly;
30 and of the mustard seed.
35 Jesus stills the storm on the sea.

Mark 5

1 Jesus delivering the possessed of the legion of demons
13 they enter into the pigs.
22 He is entreated by Jairus to go and heal his daughter.
25 He heals the woman subject to bleeding
35 and raises Jairus' daughter from death.

Mark 6

1 Jesus is a prophet without honor in his own country.
7 He gives the twelve power over unclean spirits.
14 Various opinions of Jesus.
16 John the Baptist is imprisoned beheaded and buried.
30 The apostles return from preaching.
34 The miracle of five loaves and two fishes.
45 Jesus walks on the sea;
53 and heals all who touch him.

Mark 7

1 The Pharisees find fault with the disciples for eating with unwashed hands.
8 They break the commandment of God by the traditions of men.
14 Food defiles not the man.
24 He heals the Syrophenician woman's daughter of an unclean spirit;
31 and one that was deaf and stammered in his speech.

Mark 8

1 Jesus feeds the people miraculously;
10 refuses to give a sign to the Pharisees;
14 admonishes his disciples to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Herod;
22 gives a blind man his sight;
27 acknowledges that he is the Jesus who should suffer and rise again;
34 and exhorts to patience in persecution for the profession of the gospel.

Mark 9

1 Jesus is transfigured.
11 He instructs his disciples concerning the coming of Elijah;
14 casts forth a deaf and mute spirit;
30 foretells his death and resurrection;
33 exhorts his disciples to humility;
38 bidding them not to prohibit such as are not against them
42 nor to give offense to any of the faithful.

Mark 10

1 Jesus disputes with the Pharisees concerning divorce;
13 blesses the children that are brought unto him;
17 resolves a rich man how he may inherit everlasting life;
23 tells his disciples of the danger of riches;
28 promises rewards to those who forsake all for the gospel;
32 foretells his death and resurrection;
35 bids the two ambitious suitors to think rather of suffering with him;
46 and restores to Bartimaeus his sight.

Mark 11

1 Jesus rides with triumph into Jerusalem;
12 curses the fruitless fig tree;
15 purges the temple;
20 exhorts his disciples to steadfastness of faith and to forgive their enemies;
27 and defends his actions by the witness of John who was a man sent of God.

Mark 12

1 Jesus tells the parable of the tenants
13 He avoids the snare of the Pharisees and Herodians about paying tribute to Caesar;
18 convicts the Sadducees who denied the resurrection;
28 resolves the scribe who questioned of the first commandment;
35 refutes the opinion that the scribes held of the Christ;
38 bidding the people to beware of their ambition and hypocrisy;
41 and commends the poor widow for her two mites above all.

Mark 13

1 Jesus foretells the destruction of the temple;
9 the persecutions for the gospel;
10 that the gospel must be preached to all nations;
14 that great calamities shall happen to the Jews;
24 and the manner of his coming to judgment;
32 the hour whereof being known to none every man is to watch and pray

Mark 14

1 A conspiracy against Jesus.
3 Expensive perfume is poured on his head by a woman.
10 Judas sells his Master for money.
12 Jesus himself foretells how he will be betrayed by one of his disciples;
22 after the passover prepared and eaten institutes his last supper;
26 declares beforehand the flight of all his disciples and Peter's denial.
43 Judas betrays him with a kiss.
46 Jesus is apprehended in the garden;
53 falsely accused and impiously condemned of the council;
65 shamefully abused by them;
66 and thrice denied by Peter.

Mark 15

1 Jesus brought bound and accused before Pilate.
6 Upon the clamor of the people the murderer Barabbas is released
12 and Jesus delivered up to be crucified.
16 He is crowned with thorns spit on and mocked;
21 faints in bearing his cross;
27 hangs between two thieves;
29 suffers the triumphing reproaches of the crowd;
39 but is confessed by the centurion to be the Son of God;
42 and is honorably buried by Joseph.

Mark 16

1 An Angel declares the resurrection of Jesus to three women.
9 Jesus himself appears to Mary Magdalene;
12 to two going into the country;
14 then to the apostles;
15 whom he sends forth to preach the gospel;
19 and ascends into heaven.

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Luke 1

1 The preface of Luke to his whole gospel.
5 The conception of John the Baptist;
26 and of Jesus.
39 The prophecy of Elisabeth and of Mary concerning Jesus.
57 The nativity and circumcision of John.
67 The prophecy of Zachariah both of Jesus
76 and of John.

Luke 2

1 Augustus taxes all the Roman empire.
6 The nativity of Jesus.
8 An angel relates it to the shepherds and many sing praises to God for it.
15 The shepherds glorify God.
21 Jesus is circumcised.
22 Mary purified.
25 Simeon and Anna prophesy of Jesus
39 who increases in wisdom
41 questions in the temple with the teachers
51 and is obedient to his parents.

Luke 3

1 The preaching and baptism of John;
15 his testimony of Jesus;
19 Herod imprisons John;
21 Jesus baptized receives testimony from heaven.
23 The age and genealogy of Jesus from Joseph upwards.

Luke 4

1 The fasting and temptation of Jesus.
14 He begins to preach.
16 The people of Nazareth marvel at words but seek to kill him.
33 He cures one possessed of a demon
38 Peter's mother-in-law
40 and various other sick persons.
41 The demons acknowledge Jesus and are reproved for it.
42 He preaches through the cities of Galilee.

Luke 5

1 Jesus teaches the people out of Peter's ship;
4 shows how he will make them fishers of men;
12 cleanses the leper;
16 prays in the desert;
17 heals a paralytic;
27 calls Matthew the tax collector;
29 eats with sinners as being the physician of souls;
33 foretells the fasting and afflictions of the apostles after his ascension;
36 and illustrates the matter by the parable of patches.

Luke 6

1 Jesus reproves the Pharisees;
12 chooses apostles;
17 heals the diseased;
20 preaches to his disciples before the people: the beattitudes;
27 Love your Enemy
37 Do not Judge
43 A Tree and Its Fruit
46 The House on the Rock

Luke 7

1 Jesus finds a greater faith in the centurion;
10 heals his servant being absent;
11 raises from death the widow's son at Nain;
18 answers John's messengers with the declaration of his miracles;
24 testifies to the people what opinion he held of John;
31 compares this generation to the children in the marketplaces
36 and allowing his feet to be washed and anointed by a woman who was a sinner
44 he shows how he is a friend to sinners to forgive them their sins upon their repentance.

Luke 8

1 Women minister unto Jesus of their own means.
4 Jesus after he had preached from place to place
9 explains the parable of the sower
16 and the candle;
19 declares who are his mother and brothers;
22 rebukes the winds;
26 casts the legion of demons out of the man into the herd of pigs;
37 is rejected by the Gadarenes;
43 heals the woman of her bleeding;
49 and raises Jairus's daughter from death.

Luke 9

1 Jesus sends his apostles to work miracles and to preach.
7 Herod desires to see Jesus.
10 The apostles return.
12 Jesus feeds five thousand;
18 inquires what opinion the world had of him; foretells his passion;
23 proposes to all the pattern of his patience.
28 The transfiguration.
37 He heals the lunatic;
43 again forewarns his disciples of his passion;
46 commends humility;
51 bids them to show mildness toward all without desire of revenge.
57 Many would follow him but upon conditions.

Luke 10

1 Jesus sends out at once seventy disciples to work miracles and to preach;
13 pronounces a woe against certain cities.
17 The seventy return with joy;
18 he shows them wherein to rejoice
21 and thanks his Father for his grace;
23 magnifies the happy estate of his church;
25 teaches the lawyer how to attain eternal life
30 and tells the parable of the good Samaritan;
38 reprimands Martha and commends Mary her sister.

Luke 11

1 Jesus teaches us to pray and that instantly;
11 assuring us that God will give all good things to those who ask him.
14 He casting out a demon rebukes the blasphemous Pharisees;
27 and shows who are blessed;
29 preaches to the people;
37 and reprimands the outward show of holiness.

Luke 12

1 Jesus preaches to his apostles to avoid hypocrisy
13 and warns against covetousness by the parable of the man who set up greater barns.
22 We must not worry about earthly things
31 but seek the kingdom of God;
33 give alms;
35 be ready at a knock to open to our Lord whensoever he comes.
41 Jesus' disciples are to see to their charges
49 and look for persecution.
54 The people must take this time of grace;
57 because it is a fearful thing to die without reconciliation.

Luke 13

1 Jesus preaches repentance upon the punishment of the Galilaeans and others.
6 The fruitless fig tree may not stand.
10 He heals the crooked woman;
18 shows the powerful working of the word by the parable of the grain of mustard seed
20 and of leaven;
22 exhorts to enter in at the strait gate;
31 and reproves Herod and Jerusalem.

Luke 14

1 Jesus heals the dropsy on the Sabbath;
7 teaches humility;
12 to feast the poor;
15 under the parable of the great supper
23 shows how worldly minded men shall be shut out of heaven.
25 Those who will be his disciples to bear their cross must make their accounts beforehand
31 lest with shame they revolt from him afterward;
34 and become altogether unprofitable like salt that has lost its flavor.

Luke 15

1 The parable of the lost sheep;
8 of the piece of silver;
11 of the prodigal son.

Luke 16

1 The parable of the unjust steward.
14 Jesus reproves the hypocrisy of the covetous Pharisees.
19 The parable of the rich man and Lazarus the beggar.

Luke 17

1 Jesus teaches to avoid occasions of offense;
3 and to forgive one another.
5 The power of faith.
6 How we are bound to God.
11 Jesus heals ten lepers.
22 Of the kingdom of God and the coming of the Son of Man.

Luke 18

1 Of the importunate widow.
9 Of the Pharisee and the tax collector.
15 Of Children brought to Jesus.
18 A ruler would follow Jesus but is hindered by his riches.
28 The reward of those who leave all for his sake.
31 He foretells his death;
35 and restores a blind man to sight.

Luke 19

1 Of Zacchaeus a tax collector.
11 The ten minas.
28 Jesus rides into Jerusalem with triumph;
41 weeps over it;
45 drives the buyers and sellers out of the temple;
47 Teaching daily in it. The rulers seek to destroy him but fear the people.

Luke 20

1 Jesus confirms his authority by a question of John's baptism.
9 The parable of the vineyard.
19 Of giving tribute to Caesar.
27 He instructs the Sadducees who denied the resurrection.
41 How Jesus is the Son of David.
45 He warns his disciples to beware of the scribes.

Luke 21

1 Jesus commends the poor widow.
5 He foretells the destruction of the temple and of the city Jerusalem;
25 the signs also which shall be before the last day.
34 He exhorts them to be watchful.

Luke 22

1 The leaders conspire against Jesus.
3 Satan prepares Judas to betray him.
7 The apostles prepare the Passover.
19 Jesus institutes his holy supper;
21 covertly foretells of the traitor;
24 rebukes the rest of his apostles from ambition;
31 assures Peter his faith should not fail;
34 and yet he should deny him thrice.
39 He prays in the mount and sweats blood;
47 is betrayed with a kiss;
50 he heals Malchus' ear;
54 he is thrice denied by Peter;
63 shamefully abused;
66 and confesses himself to be the Son of God.

Luke 23

1 Jesus is accused before Pilate and sent to Herod.
8 Herod mocks him.
12 Herod and Pilate become friends.
13 Barabbas is desired of the people
24 and is released by Pilate and Jesus is given to be crucified.
26 He tells the women that lament him the destruction of Jerusalem;
34 prays for his enemies.
39 Two criminals are crucified with him.
46 His death.
50 His burial.

Luke 24

1 Jesus' resurrection is declared by two angels to the women who come to the tomb.
9 They report it to others.
13 Jesus himself appears to the two disciples that went to Emmaus;
36 afterwards he appears to the apostles and reproves their unbelief;
47 gives them a charge;
49 promises the Holy Spirit;
50 and so ascends into heaven.

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John 1

1 The divinity humanity office and incarnation of Jesus Christ.
15 The testimony of John.
39 The calling of Simon and Andrew Philip and Nathanael

John 2

1 Jesus turns water into wine;
12 departs into Capernaum
13 and to Jerusalem
14 where he purges the temple of buyers and sellers.
18 He foretells his death and resurrection.
23 Many believe because of his miracles but he will not trust himself with them.

John 3

1 Jesus teaches Nicodemus the necessity of being born again
14 of faith in his death
16 the great love of God toward the world
18 and the condemnation for unbelief.
22 Jesus baptizes in Judea.
23 The baptism witness and doctrine of John concerning Jesus.

John 4

1 Jesus talks with a woman of Samaria and reveals his identity to her.
27 His disciples marvel.
31 He declares to them his zeal for God's glory.
39 Many Samaritans believe on him.
43 He departs into Galilee and heals the ruler's son that lay sick at Capernaum.

John 5

1 Jesus on the Sabbath day cures him who was diseased thirty-eight years.
10 The Jews therefore object and persecute him for it.
17 He answers for himself and reproves them showing by the testimony of his Father
31 of John
36 of his works
39 and of the Scriptures who he is.

John 6

1 Jesus feeds five thousand men with five loaves and two fishes.
15 Thereupon the people would have made him king;
16 but withdrawing himself he walks on the sea to his disciples;
26 reproves the people flocking after him and all the fleshly hearers of his word;
32 declares himself to be the bread of life to believers.
66 Many disciples depart from him.
68 Peter confesses him.
70 Judas is a devil.

John 7

1 Jesus reproves the ambition and boldness of his kinsmen;
10 goes up from Galilee to the feast of tabernacles;
14 teaches in the temple.
40 Various opinions of him among the people.
45 The Pharisees are angry that their officers took him not
50 and chide with Nicodemus for taking his side.

John 8

1 Jesus delivers the woman taken in adultery.
12 He declares himself the light of the world and justifies his doctrine;
31 promises freedom to those who believe;
33 answers the Jews who boasted of Abraham;
48 answers their reviling by showing his authority and dignity;
59 and slips away from those who would stone him.

John 9

1 The man born blind is restored to sight.
8 He is brought to the Pharisees.
13 They are offended at it;
35 but he is received of Jesus and confesses him.
39 Who they are whom Jesus enlightens.

John 10

1 Jesus is the door and the good shepherd.
19 Diverse opinions of him.
23 He proves by his works that he is Jesus the Son of God;
31 escapes the Jews;
39 and goes again beyond Jordan where many believe on him.

John 11

1 Jesus raises Lazarus four days buried.
45 Many Jews believe.
47 The high priests and Pharisees gather a council against Jesus.
49 Caiaphas prophesies.
54 Jesus hides himself.
55 At the Passover they enquire after him and lay wait for him.

John 12

1 Jesus excuses Mary anointing his feet.
9 The people flock to see Lazarus.
10 The chief priests consult to kill him.
12 Jesus rides into Jerusalem.
20 Greeks desire to see Jesus.
23 He foretells his death.
37 The people are generally blinded;
42 yet many chief rulers believe but do not confess him;
44 therefore Jesus calls earnestly for confession of faith.

John 13

1 Jesus washes the disciples' feet and exhorts them to humility and charity.
18 He foretells and discovers to John by a token that Judas should betray him;
31 commands them to love one another;
36 and forewarns Peter of his denials.

John 14

1 Jesus comforts his disciples with the hope of heaven;
5 professes himself the way the truth and the life and one with the Father;
13 assures their prayers to be effectual;
15 requires obedience;
16 promises the Comforter;
27 and leaves his peace with them.

John 15

1 The union of Jesus and his members shown under the parable of a vine.
18 The hatred of the world.
26 The office of the Holy Spirit.

John 16

1 Jesus comforts his disciples by the promise of the Holy Spirit and his ascension;
23 assures their prayers made in his name to be acceptable.
33 Peace in Jesus and in the world affliction.

John 17

1 Jesus prays to his Father.

John 18

1 Judas betrays Jesus.
6 The officers fall to the ground.
10 Peter cuts off Malchus' ear.
12 Jesus is taken and led unto Annas and Caiaphas.
15 Peter's denial.
19 Jesus examined before Caiaphas.
25 Peter's second and third denial.
28 Jesus arraigned before Pilate.
36 His kingdom.
40 The Jews prefer Barabbas.

John 19

1 Jesus is scourged crowned with thorns and beaten.
4 Pilate is desirous to release him
15 but being overcome with the outrage of the crowd he delivers him to be crucified.
23 They cast lots for his garments.
25 He commends his mother to John.
28 He dies.
31 His side is pierced.
38 He is buried by Joseph and Nicodemus.

John 20

1 Mary comes to the tomb;
3 so do Peter and John ignorant of the resurrection.
11 Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene
19 and to his disciples.
24 The incredulity and confession of Thomas.
30 The Scripture is sufficient to salvation.

John 21

1 Jesus appearing again to his disciples is known of them by the great catch of fish.
12 He dines with them;
15 earnestly commands Peter to feed his lambs and sheep;
18 foretells him of his death;
22 rebukes his curiosity.
24 The conclusion.

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Acts 1

1 Christ preparing his apostles to the beholding of his ascension .
4 gathers them together unto the Mount of Olives
6 commands them to expect in Jerusalem the sending down of the Holy Spirit
9 and ascends into heaven in their sight
10 After his ascension they are warned by two angels to depart and to set their minds upon his second coming.
12 They accordingly return and giving themselves to prayer
23 choose Matthias apostle in the place of Judas.

Acts 2

1 The apostles filled with the Holy Spirit and speaking various languages
12 are admired by some and derided by others;
14 whom Peter disproves;
37 he baptizes a great number who were converted;
41 who afterwards devoutly and charitably converse together;
43 the apostles working many miracles
46 and God daily increasing his church.

Acts 3

1 Peter preaching to the people that came to see a lame man restored to his feet
12 professes the cure to have been wrought by God and his son Jesus;
13 withal reprehending them for crucifying Jesus;
17 which because they did it through ignorance
18 and that thereby were fulfilled God's determinate counsel and the Scriptures
19 he exhorts them by repentance and faith to seek remission of their sins through Jesus.

Acts 4

1 The rulers of the Jews offended with Peter's sermon
3 imprison him and John.
5 After upon examination
8 Peter boldly avouching the lame man to be healed by the name of Jesus
11 and that only by the same Jesus we must be eternally saved
13 they threaten him and John to preach no more in that name
23 whereupon the church flees to prayer.
31 And God by moving the place where they were assembled testifies that he heard their prayer;
34 confirming the church with the gift of the Holy Spirit and with mutual love and charity.

Acts 5

1 After that Ananias and Sapphira his wife
3 at Peter's rebuke had fallen down dead;
12 and that the rest of the apostles had wrought many miracles;
14 to the increase of the faith;
17 the apostles are again imprisoned;
19 but delivered by an angel bidding them preach openly to all;
21 when after their teaching accordingly in the temple
29 and before the council
33 they are in danger to be killed;
34 but through the advice of Gamaliel they are kept alive and are only beaten;
41 for which they glorify God and cease no day from preaching.

Acts 6

1 The apostles desirous to have the poor cared for
2 as also careful themselves to dispense the word of God the food of the soul
3 recommend
5 and with the church's consent ordain seven chosen men to the office of deaconship.
7 The word of God prevails
8 Stephen full of faith and the Holy Spirit confuting those with whom he disputed
12 is brought before the council
13 and falsely accused of blasphemy against the law and the temple.

Acts 7

1 Stephen permitted to answer to the accusation of blasphemy
2 shows that Abraham worshipped God rightly and how God chose the fathers
20 before Moses was born and before the tabernacle and temple were built;
37 that Moses himself witnessed of Christ;
44 and that all outward ceremonies were ordained to last but for a time;
51 reprehending their rebellion and murdering of Christ whom the prophets foretold.
54 Whereupon they stone Stephen to death
59 who commends his soul to Jesus and humbly prays for them.

Acts 8

1 By occasion of the persecution in Jerusalem the church being planted in Samaria
4 by Philip the deacon who preached did miracles and baptized many;
9 among the rest Simon the sorcerer a great seducer of the people;
14 Peter and John come to confirm and enlarge the church;
15 where by prayer and imposition of hands giving the Holy Spirit;
18 when Simon would have bought the like power of them
20 Peter sharply reproving his hypocrisy and covetousness
22 and exhorting him to repentance
25 together with John preaching the word of the Lord return to Jerusalem;
26 but the angel sends Philip to teach and baptize the Ethiopian Eunuch.

Acts 9

1 Saul going toward Damascus is stricken down to the earth
8 and led blind to Damascus;
10 is called to the apostleship;
18 and is baptized by Ananias.
20 He preaches Christ boldly.
23 The Jews lay wait to kill him;
29 so do the Grecians but he escapes both.
31 The church having rest Peter heals Aeneas;
36 and restores Tabitha to life.

Acts 10

1 Cornelius a devout man being commanded by an angel sends for Peter
11 who by a vision is taught not to despise the Gentiles;
17 and is commanded by the Spirit to go with the messenger to Caesarea.
25 Cornelius shows the occasion of his sending for him.
34 As he preaches Christ to Cornelius and his company
44 the Holy Spirit falls on them and they are baptized.

Acts 11

1 Peter being accused for preaching to the Gentiles
5 makes his defense;
18 which is accepted.
19 The gospel being spread in Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch
22 Barnabas is sent to confirm them.
26 The disciples are first called Christians at Antioch.
27 They send relief to the brothers in Judea in time of famine.

Acts 12

1 King Herod persecutes the Christians kills James and imprisons Peter;
6 whom an angel delivers upon the prayers of the church.
20 Herod in his pride taking to himself the honor due to God
23 is stricken by an angel and dies miserably.
24 After his death the word of God prospers.
25 Saul and Barnabas return to Antioch.

Acts 13

1 Paul and Barnabas are chosen to go to the Gentiles.
6 Of Sergius Paulus and Elymas the sorcerer.
13 Paul preaches at Antioch that Jesus is Christ.
42 The Gentiles believe;
44 but the Jews talked abusively against Paul
46 whereupon they turn to the Gentiles of whom many believe.
50 The Jews raise a persecution against Paul and Barnabas who go to Iconium.

Acts 14

1 Paul and Barnabas are persecuted from Iconium.
8 At Lystra Paul heals a cripple whereupon they are reputed as gods.
19 Paul is stoned.
21 They pass through various churches confirming the disciples in faith and patience.
26 Returning to Antioch they report what God had done with them.

Acts 15

1 Great dissensions arise regarding circumcision.
5 The apostles consult about it
22 and send their determination by letters to the churches.
36 Paul and Barnabas thinking to visit the brothers together
39 disagree and travel different ways.

Acts 16

1 Paul and Silas are Joined by Timothy
7 and being called by the Spirit from one country to another
14 convert Lydia
16 and cast out a spirit of divination;
19 for which cause they are whipped and imprisoned.
25 The prison doors are opened.
31 The jailor is converted
35 and they are delivered.

Acts 17

1 Paul preaches at Thessalonica where some believe
5 and others persecute him.
10 He is sent to Berea and preaches there.
13 Being persecuted by Jews from Thessalonica
16 he comes to Athens and disputes and preaches the living God to them unknown;
32 whereby though some mock many are converted unto Christ.

Acts 18

1 Paul labors with his hands and preaches at Corinth to the Gentiles.
9 The Lord encourages him in a vision.
12 He is accused before Gallio the deputy but is dismissed.
18 Afterwards passing from city to city he strengthens the disciples.
24 Apollos being instructed by Aquila and Priscilla preaches Christ boldly.

Acts 19

1 The Holy Spirit is given by Paul's hands.
8 The Jews blaspheme his doctrine which is confirmed by miracles.
13 The Jewish exorcists
16 are beaten by a man who had an evil spirit.
19 Conjuring books are burnt.
21 Demetrius for love of gain raises an uproar against Paul;
35 which is appeased by the town clerk.

Acts 20

1 Paul goes to Macedonia and thence to Troas.
7 He celebrates the Lord's supper and preaches.
9 Eutychus having fallen down dead is raised to life.
13 Paul continues his travels;
17 and at Miletum he calls the elders together tells them what shall befall to himself
28 commits God's flock to them
29 warns them of false teachers
32 commends them to God
36 prays with them and departs.

Acts 21

1 Paul calls at the house of Philip whose daughters prophesy.
10 Agabus foretelling what should befall him at Jerusalem
13 he will not be dissuaded from going thither.
17 He comes to Jerusalem;
27 where he is apprehended and in great danger but by the chief captain is rescued;
37 and requests and is permitted to speak to the people.

Acts 22

1 Paul declares how he was converted to the faith
17 and called to his apostleship.
22 At the very mentioning of the Gentiles the people exclaim on him.
24 He would have been scourged;
25 but claiming the privilege of a Roman he escapes.

Acts 23

1 As Paul pleads his cause
2 Ananias commands them to strike him.
7 Dissension among his accusers.
11 God encourages him.
14 The Jews' vow to kill Paul
20 is declared unto the chief captain.
27 He sends him to Felix the governor.

Acts 24

1 Paul being accused by Tertullus the orator
10 answers for his life and doctrine.
24 He preaches Christ to the governor and his wife.
26 The governor hopes for a bribe but in vain.
27 Felix succeeded by Festus leaves Paul in prison.

Acts 25

1 The Jews accuse Paul before Festus.
8 He answers for himself
11 and appeals unto Caesar.
14 Afterwards Festus opens his matter to king Agrippa;
23 and he is brought forth.
25 Festus clears him of having done anything worthy of death.

Acts 26

1 Paul in the presence of Agrippa declares his life from his childhood;
12 and how miraculously he was converted and called to his apostleship.
24 Festus charges him with being insane whereunto he answers modestly.
28 Agrippa is almost persuaded to be a Christian.
31 The whole company pronounces him innocent.

Acts 27

1 Paul shipping toward Rome
10 foretells of the danger of the voyage
11 but is not believed.
14 They are tossed to and fro by a storm;
41 and suffer shipwreck;
44 yet all come safe to land.

Acts 28

1 Paul after his shipwreck is kindly entertained on Malta.
5 The snake on his hand hurts him not.
8 He heals many diseases in the island.
11 They depart toward Rome.
17 He declares to the Jews the cause of his coming.
24 After his preaching some were persuaded and some believed not.
30 Yet he preaches there two years.

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Romans 1

1 Paul commends his calling to the Romans;
9 and his desire to come to them.
16 What his gospel is.
18 God is angry with sin.
21 What were the sins of mankind.

Romans 2

1 No excuse for sin.
6 No escape from judgment.
14 Gentiles cannot;
17 nor Jews.

Romans 3

1 The Jews prerogative;
3 which they have not lost;
9 howbeit the law convinces them also of sin;
20 therefore no one is justified by the law;
28 but all without difference by faith only;
31 and yet the law is not abolished.

Romans 4

1 Abraham's faith was credited to him as righteousness;
10 before he was circumcised.
13 By faith only he and his seed received the promise.
16 Abraham is the father of all who believe.
24 Our faith also shall be credited to us as righteousness.

Romans 5

1 Being justified by faith we have peace with God;
2 and joy in our hope;
8 that since we were reconciled by his blood when we were enemies;
10 we shall much more be saved being reconciled.
12 As sin and death came by Adam;
17 so much more righteousness and life by Jesus Christ.
20 Where sin abounded grace did superabound.

Romans 6

1 We may not live in sin;
2 for we are dead unto it;
3 as appears by our baptism.
12 Let not sin reign anymore;
18 because we have yielded ourselves to the service of righteousness;
23 and because death is the wages of sin.

Romans 7

1 No law has power over a man longer than he lives.
4 But we are dead to the law.
7 Yet is not the law sin;
12 but holy just and good;
16 as I acknowledge who am grieved because I cannot keep it.

Romans 8

1 Those who are in Christ are free from condemnation.
5 What harm comes of the flesh;
13 and what good of the Spirit.
19 The glorious deliverance the creation longs for
29 was beforehand decreed from God.
38 Nothing can sever us from his love.

Romans 9

1 Paul is sorry for the Jews.
7 All of Abraham not of the promise.
18 God's sovereignty.
25 The calling of the Gentiles and rejecting of the Jews foretold.
32 The cause of their stumbling.

Romans 10

1 The difference between the righteousness of the law and that of faith;
11 all who believe both Jew and Gentile shall not be shamed;
18 and that the Gentiles shall receive the word and believe.
19 Israel was not ignorant of these things.

Romans 11

1 God has not cast off all Israel.
7 Some were elected though the rest were hardened.
16 There is hope of their conversion.
18 The Gentiles may not exult over them;
26 for there is a promise of their salvation.
33 God's judgments are unsearchable.

Romans 12

1 God's mercies must move us to offer ourselves.
3 No man must think too well of himself;
6 but everyone attend to the calling wherein he is placed.
9 Love and many other duties are required of us.
19 Revenge is especially forbidden.

Romans 13

1 Subjection and many other duties we owe to the authorities.
8 Love is the fulfillment of the law.
11 The acts of darkness are out of season in the time of the Gospel.

Romans 14

1 Men may not condemn one another for disputable matters;
13 but must take heed that they give no offense in them;
15 which the apostle proves unlawful by many reasons.

Romans 15

1 The strong must bear with the weak.
2 We must not please ourselves;
3 for Christ did not so;
7 but receive one another as Christ did us all;
8 both Jews and Gentiles;
15 Paul excuses his writing;
28 and promises to see them;
30 and requests their prayers.

Romans 16

1 Paul wills the brothers to greet many;
17 and advises them to take heed of those which cause dissension and offenses;
21 and after various salutations ends with praise and thanks to God.

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1 Corinthians 1

1 After his salutation and thanksgiving for the Corinthians
10 Paul exhorts them to unity
12 and reproves their dissensions.
18 God destroys the wisdom of the wise
21 by the foolishness of preaching;
26 and calls not the wise mighty and noble
28 but the foolish weak and men of no account.

1 Corinthians 2

1 Paul declares that his preaching
4 though it bring not excellence of speech or of human wisdom
5 yet consists in the power of God;
6 and so far excels the wisdom of this world that the natural man cannot understand it.

1 Corinthians 3

1 Milk is fit for children.
3 Strife and division arguments of a fleshly mind.
7 He who plants and He who waters are nothing.
9 The ministers are God's fellow workmen.
11 Christ the only foundation.
16 You are the temples of God which must be kept holy.
19 The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.

1 Corinthians 4

1 In what account the apostles ought to be regarded.
7 We have nothing which we have not received.
9 The apostles spectacles to the world angels and men;
13 the filth and offscouring of the world;
15 yet our fathers in Christ;
16 whom we ought to follow.

1 Corinthians 5

1 The sexual immorality person
6 is cause rather of shame unto them than of rejoicing.
7 The old leaven is to be purged out.
10 Heinous offenders are to be shamed and avoided.

1 Corinthians 6

1 The Corinthians must take their brothers to court;
6 especially under infidels.
9 The wicked shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
15 Our bodies are the members of Christ and temples of the Holy Spirit:
19 they must not therefore be defiled.

1 Corinthians 7

1 He discusses marriage;
4 showing it to be a remedy against sinful desires
10 and that the bond thereof ought not lightly to be dissolved.
20 Every man must be content with his vocation.
25 Virginity wherefore to be embraced;
35 and for what respects we may either marry or abstain from marrying.

1 Corinthians 8

1 To abstain from food offered to idols.
8 We must not abuse our Christian liberty to the offense of our brothers;
11 but must bridle our knowledge with charity.

1 Corinthians 9

1 He shows his liberty;
7 and that the minister ought to receive a living by the Gospel;
15 yet that himself has of his own accord abstained
18 to be neither chargeable unto them
22 nor offensive unto any in matters indifferent.
24 Our life is like unto a race.

1 Corinthians 10

1 The sacraments of the Jews are types of ours;
7 and their punishments
11 examples for us.
13 We must flee from idolatry.
21 We must not make the Lord's table the table of demons;
24 and in all things we must have regard for our brothers.

1 Corinthians 11

1 He reproves them because in holy assemblies
4 their men prayed with their heads covered
6 and women with their heads uncovered;
17 and because generally their meetings were not for the better but for the worse;
21 as namely in profaning with their own feast the Lord's supper.
25 Lastly he calls them to the first institution thereof.

1 Corinthians 12

1 Spiritual gifts
4 are diverse
7 yet to profit all.
8 And to that end are diversely bestowed;
12 as the members of a natural body tend all to the mutual decency
22 service
26 and helpfulness of the same body;
27 so we should do for one another to make up the body of Christ.

1 Corinthians 13

1 All gifts
3 however excellent are of no worth without love.
4 The praises thereof
13 as love is greatest before hope and faith.

1 Corinthians 14

1 Prophecy is commended
2 and preferred before speaking in tongues
6 by a comparison drawn from musical instruments.
12 Both must be referred to edification
22 as to their true and proper end.
26 The true use of each is taught
27 and the abuse rebuked.
34 Women in the churches.

1 Corinthians 15

1 By Christ's resurrection
12 he proves the necessity of our resurrection
16 against all such as deny the resurrection of the body.
21 The fruit
35 and the manner thereof;
51 and of the resurrection of those who shall be found alive at the last day.

1 Corinthians 16

1 He exhorts them to a collection for the brothers at Jerusalem.
10 Commends Timothy;
13 and after friendly admonitions
16 concludes his epistle with various salutations.

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2 Corinthians 1

1 Paul salutes the Corinthians;
3 he encourages them against troubles
5 by the comforts and deliverances which God had given him
8 so particularly in his late danger in Asia.
12 And calling both his own conscience and theirs
15 he excuses his not coming to them as proceeding not of lightness
23 but of his care for them.

2 Corinthians 2

1 Having shown the reason why he came not to them
6 he requires them to forgive and to comfort that excommunicated person
10 even as he himself upon true repentance had forgiven him;
12 declaring why he departed from Troas to Macedonia
14 and the happy success which God gave to his preaching in all places.

2 Corinthians 3

1 Lest their false teachers should charge him with vain glory
2 he shows the faith of the Corinthians to be a sufficient commendation of his ministry.
6 Whereupon entering a comparison between the ministers of the law and of the gospel
12 he proves that his ministry is so far the more excellent
17 as the gospel of life and liberty is more glorious than the law of condemnation.

2 Corinthians 4

1 Paul declares how he has used all sincerity and diligence in preaching the gospel
7 and how his troubles and persecutions did redound to the praise of God's power
12 to the benefit of the church
16 and to the apostle's own eternal glory.

2 Corinthians 5

1 That in his assured hope of immortal glory
9 and in expectation of it he labors to keep a good conscience;
12 not that he may boast of himself
14 but as one that having received life from Christ
17 endeavors to live as a new creature to Christ only
18 and by his ministry of reconciliation to reconcile others also in Christ to God.

2 Corinthians 6

1 That he has approved himself a faithful minister of Christ by his exhortations
3 and by integrity of life
4 and by patiently enduring all kinds of affliction and disgrace for the gospel.
10 Of which he speaks the more boldly amongst them because his heart is open to them
13 and he expects the like affection from them again;
14 exhorting them to flee the society and pollutions of idolaters
17 as being themselves temples of the living God.

2 Corinthians 7

1 He proceeds in exhorting them to purity of life;
2 and to bear him like affection as he does to them.
3 Whereof lest he might seem to doubt he declares what comfort he took in his afflictions
6 by the report which Titus gave of their godly sorrow
8 which his former epistle had wrought in them;
13 and of their loving-kindness and obedience toward Titus answerable to his former boastings of them.

2 Corinthians 8

1 He stirs them to a generous gift for the poor saints at Jerusalem by the example of the Macedonians;
7 by commendation of their former forwardness;
9 by the example of Christ;
14 and by the spiritual profit that shall redound to themselves thereby;
16 commending to them the integrity and willingness of Titus and those other brothers.

2 Corinthians 9

1 He yields the reason why he sent Titus and his brothers beforehand.
6 And he proceeds in stirring them up to a bountiful alms as being but a kind of sowing of seed
10 which shall return a great increase to them
13 and occasion a great sacrifice of thanksgivings unto God.

2 Corinthians 10

1 Against the false apostles who disgraced the weakness of his person and bodily presence
4 he shows the spiritual might and authority with which he was armed against all adverse powers;
7 assuring those who at his coming he will be found as mighty in word as he is now in writing;
12 and encouraging them to reach out themselves beyond their compass.

2 Corinthians 11

1 Out of his jealousy over the Corinthians he enters into a forced commendation of himself
5 of his equality with the chief apostles
7 of his preaching the gospel to them freely and without any charge to them;
13 showing that he was not inferior to those deceitful workers in any legal prerogative;
23 and in the service of Christ and in all kinds of sufferings for his ministry far superior.

2 Corinthians 12

1 For commending of his apostleship though he might glory of his wonderful revelations
9 yet he rather chooses to glory of his infirmities;
11 blaming the Corinthians for forcing him to this vain boasting.
14 He promises to come to them again; but yet altogether in the affection of a father;
20 although he fears he shall to his grief find many offenders and public disorders there.

2 Corinthians 13

1 Paul threatens severity and the power of his apostleship against obstinate sinners.
5 And advising them to a trial of their faith
7 and to a reformation of their sins before his coming
11 he concludes his epistle with a general exhortation and a prayer.

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Galatians 1

1 Paul's greeting to the Galatians;
6 He wonders why they have so soon left him and the gospel;
8 and accurses those who preach any other gospel than he did.
11 He learned the gospel not from men but from God;
14 and shows what he was before his calling;
17 and what he did immediately after it.

Galatians 2

1 He shows when he went up again to Jerusalem and for what purpose;
3 and that Titus was not circumcised;
11 and that he resisted Peter and told him the reason;
14 why he and others being Jews believe in Christ to be justified by faith and not by works;
20 and that they live not in sin who are so justified.

Galatians 3

1 He asks what moved them to leave the faith and hold onto the law.
6 Those who believe are justified
9 and blessed with Abraham.
10 And this he shows by many reasons.
15 The purpose of the Law
26 You are sons of God

Galatians 4

1 We were under the law till Christ came as the heir is under the guardian till he be of age.
5 But Christ freed us from the law;
7 therefore we are servants no longer to it.
14 Paul remembers the Galatians' good will to him and his to them;
22 and shows that we are the sons of Abraham by the freewoman.

Galatians 5

1 He wills them to stand in their liberty
3 and not to observe circumcision;
13 but rather love which is the sum of the law.
19 He lists the works of the flesh
22 and the fruits of the Spirit
25 and exhorts to walk in the Spirit.

Galatians 6

1 He moves them to deal mildly with a brother who has slipped
2 and to bear one another's burden;
6 to be generous to their teachers
9 and not weary of well-doing.
12 He shows what they intend that preach circumcision.
14 He glories in nothing save in the cross of Christ.

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Ephesians 1

1 After Paul's salutation
3 and thanksgiving for the Ephesians
4 he treats of our election
6 and adoption by grace;
11 which is the true and proper fountain of man's salvation.
13 And because the height of this mystery cannot be easily attained unto
16 he prays that they may come to the full knowledge and possession thereof in Christ.

Ephesians 2

1 By comparing what we were by nature with what we are by grace
10 he declares that we are made for good works: and being brought near by Christ
19 should not live as Gentiles and foreigners but as citizens with the saints and the family of God.

Ephesians 3

1 The hidden mystery that the Gentiles should be saved was made known to Paul by revelation;
8 and to him was that grace given that he should preach it.
13 He desires them not to be discouraged over his tribulation;
14 and prays that they may perceive the great love of Christ toward them.

Ephesians 4

1 He exhorts to unity;
7 and declares that God therefore gives various gifts unto men;
11 that his church might be edified
16 and grow up in Christ.
18 He calls them from the impurity of the Gentiles;
24 to put on the new man;
25 to cast off lying;
29 and corrupt communication.

Ephesians 5

1 After general exhortations to love;
3 to flee sexual immorality;
4 and all uncleanness;
7 not to converse with the wicked;
15 to walk carefully;
18 and to be filled with the Spirit;
22 he descends to the particular duties how wives ought to obey their husbands;
25 and husbands ought to love their wives
32 even as Christ does his church.

Ephesians 6

1 The duty of children toward their parents;
5 of servants toward their masters.
10 Our life is a warfare not only against flesh and blood but also spiritual enemies.
13 The complete armor of a Christian;
18 and how it ought to be used.
21 Tychicus is commended.

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Philippians 1

1 Paul testifies his thankfulness to God and his love toward the Philippians
9 daily praying for their increase in grace;
12 he shows what good the faith of Christ had received by his troubles at Rome;
21 and how ready he is to glorify Christ either by his life or death;
27 exhorting them to unity;
28 and to fortitude in persecution.

Philippians 2

1 Paul exhorts them to unity and to all humbleness of mind by the example of Christ's humility;
12 to a careful proceeding in the way of salvation that they be as lights to a wicked world
16 and comforts to him their apostle who is now ready to be offered up to God.
19 He hopes to send Timothy to them and Epaphroditus also.

Philippians 3

1 He warns them to beware of the false teachers;
4 showing that himself has greater cause than they to trust in the righteousness of the law;
7 which he counts as loss to gain Christ and his righteousness;
12 acknowledging his own imperfection and pressing on toward the goal;
15 He exhorts them to be thus minded;
17 and to imitate him
18 and to decline carnal ways.

Philippians 4

1 From particular admonitions
4 he proceeds to general exhortations
10 showing how he rejoiced at their generosity toward him while in prison.
19 And so he concludes with prayer and salutations.

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Colossians 1

1 After salutation Paul thanks God for the Colossians' faith;
7 confirms the doctrine of Epaphras;
9 prays further for their increase in grace;
14 describes the supremacy of Christ;
21 encourages them to receive Jesus Christ and commends his own ministry.

Colossians 2

1 Paul still exhorts them to be constant in Christ;
8 to beware of philosophy and vain traditions;
18 worshipping of angels;
20 and legal ceremonies which are ended in Christ.

Colossians 3

1 He shows where we should seek Christ.
5 He exhorts to holiness;
10 to put off the old self and put on Christ;
12 exhorting to charity humility
18 and other duties.

Colossians 4

1 He exhorts them to be fervent in prayer;
5 to walk wisely toward those who are not yet come to the true knowledge of Christ.
10 He salutes them and wishes them all prosperity.

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1 Thessalonians 1

1 The Thessalonians are told both how mindful of them Paul was in thanksgiving and prayer;
5 and also how well he was persuaded of the truth and sincerity of their faith and conversion to God.

1 Thessalonians 2

1 In what manner the gospel was brought and preached to the Thessalonians.
18 A reason is rendered both why Paul was so long absent from them and also so desirous to see them.

1 Thessalonians 3

1 Paul testifies his great love to the Thessalonians
5 partly by sending Timothy unto them to strengthen and comfort them;
7 partly by rejoicing in their well-doing;
10 and partly by praying for them and desiring a safe coming unto them.

1 Thessalonians 4

1 He exhorts them to go forward in all manner of godliness;
6 to live holily and justly;
9 to love one another;
11 and quietly to follow their own business;
13 and last of all to sorrow moderately for the dead.
17 followed by a brief description of the resurrection and second coming of Christ to judgment.

1 Thessalonians 5

1 He proceeds in the description of Christ's coming to judgment;
16 and gives various instructions;
23 and so concludes the epistle.

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2 Thessalonians 1

1 Paul certifies the Thessalonians of the good opinion which he had of their faith love and patience;
11 and therewithal uses various reasons for the comforting of them in persecution.

2 Thessalonians 2

1 Paul urges them to continue stedfast in the truth received;
3 shows that there shall be a departure from the faith
9 and a discovery of Antichrist before the day of the Lord comes;
15 repeats his exhortation to stand firm and prays for them.

2 Thessalonians 3

1 Paul craves their prayers for himself;
3 testifies what confidence he has in them;
5 makes request to God in their behalf;
6 gives them various precepts especially to shun idleness and ill company;
16 and then concludes with prayer and salutation.

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1 Timothy 1

1 Paul declares Timothy is faithful to the charge which was given him at his going to Macedonia.
5 The right use and end of the law.
11 Paul's calling to be an apostle;
20 and the disobedience or Hymenaeus and Alexander.

1 Timothy 2

1 Instruction to pray and give thanks.
9 How women should be attired.
12 They are not permitted to teach.
15 They shall be saved if they continue in faith.

1 Timothy 3

1 How bishops deacons and their wives should be qualified;
14 and to what end Paul wrote to Timothy of these things.
15 Of the church and the blessed truth therein taught and professed.

1 Timothy 4

1 He foretells that in the latter times there shall be a departure from the faith.
6 And to the end that Timothy might not fail in doing his duty he furnishes him with various precepts.

1 Timothy 5

1 Rules to be observed in reproving.
3 Of widows.
17 Of elders.
23 A precept for Timothy's health.
24 Some men's sins go before unto judgment and some men's follow after.

1 Timothy 6

1 Of the duty of servants.
3 Not to have fellowship with newfangled teachers.
6 Godliness is great gain;
10 and love of money the root of all evil.
11 What Timothy is to flee and what to follow.
17 and whereof to admonish the rich.
20 To keep the purity of true doctrine and to avoid godless ideas.

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2 Timothy 1

1 Paul's love to Timothy and unfeigned confidence in Timothy himself his mother and grandmother.
6 He is exhorted to stir up the gift of God which was in him;
8 to be steadfast and patient in persecution;
13 and to persist in the form and truth of that doctrine which he had learned of him.
15 Phygellus and Hermogenes and such like are noted and Onesiphorus is highly commended.

2 Timothy 2

1 Timothy is exhorted again to constancy and perseverance.
17 Of Hymenaeus and Philetus.
19 The foundation of the Lord is sure.
22 He is taught whereof to beware and what to follow after.

2 Timothy 3

1 Paul advises Timothy of the difficult times to come;
6 describes the enemies of the truth;
10 explains unto him his own example;
16 and commends the holy Scriptures;

2 Timothy 4

1 He exhorts him to preach the Word with all care and diligence;
6 certifies him of the nearness of his death;
9 wills him to come speedily unto him and to bring Marcus with him;
14 warns him to beware of Alexander the metalworker.
16 informs him what had befallen him at his first answering;
19 and soon after he concludes.

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Titus 1

1 Paul greets Titus who was left to finish the work in Crete.
6 How those chosen as ministers ought to be qualified.
11 The mouths of evil teachers to be stopped;
12 and what manner of men they be.

Titus 2

1 Directions given unto Titus both for his doctrine and life.
10 Of the duty of servants and in general of all Christians.

Titus 3

1 Titus is further directed by Paul concerning the things that he should teach and not teach.
10 He is to reject obstinate heretics.
12 Paul appoints him time and place wherein he should come unto him.

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Philemon 1

1 Paul rejoices to hear of the faith and love of Philemon
8 whom he desires to forgive his servant Onesimus and lovingly to receive him again.

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Hebrews 1

1 Christ in these last times coming to us from the Father
4 is preferred above the angels both in person and office.

Hebrews 2

1 We ought to be obedient to Christ Jesus;
5 and that because he condescended to take our nature upon himself;
14 as it was necessary.

Hebrews 3

1 Christ is more worthy than Moses;
7 therefore if we believe not in him we shall be more worthy punishment than hardhearted Israel.

Hebrews 4

1 The Sabbath-Rest for Christians is attained by faith.
12 The power of God's word.
14 By our high priest Jesus the Son of God
16 we may and must go boldly to the throne of grace.

Hebrews 5

1 The honor of our Savior's priesthood.
11 Negligence in the knowledge thereof is reproved.

Hebrews 6

1 He exhorts not to fall back from the faith;
11 but to be steadfast
12 diligent and patient to wait upon God;
13 because God is most sure in his promise.

Hebrews 7

1 Christ Jesus is a priest after the order of Melchizedek;
11 and so far more excellent than the priests of Aaron's order.

Hebrews 8

1 By the eternal priesthood of Christ the Levitical priesthood of Aaron is overshadowed;
7 and replaced by the new covenant of the Gospel.

Hebrews 9

1 The description of the rites and sacrifices of the law;
11 which are far inferior to the dignity and perfection of the sacrifice of Christ.

Hebrews 10

1 The weakness of the law sacrifices.
10 The sacrifice of Christ's body once offered
14 for ever has taken away sins.
19 An exhortation to hold fast the faith with patience and thanksgiving.

Hebrews 11

1 What faith is.
6 Without faith we cannot please God.
7 The examples of faithfulness in the fathers of old time.

Hebrews 12

1 An exhortation to constant faith patience and godliness by Christ's example
22 A commendation of the new covenant.

Hebrews 13

1 Various admonitions as to love;
4 to honest life;
5 to avoid covetousness;
7 to regard God's preachers;
9 to take heed of strange doctrines;
10 to confess Christ;
16 to give alms;
17 to obey governors;
18 to pray for the apostles.
20 The conclusion.

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James 1

1 James greets the twelve tribes among the nations;
2 exhorts to rejoice in trials and temptations;
5 to ask patience of God;
13 and in our trials not to impute our weakness or sins to him
19 but rather to hearken to the word to meditate on it and to do thereafter.
26 Otherwise men may seem but never be truly religious.

James 2

1 Do not regard the rich and despise the poor brothers;
13 rather we are to be loving and merciful;
14 and not to boast of faith without deeds;
17 because faith without deeds is useless;
19 as is the faith of the demons;
21 however Abraham displayed both faith and actions;
25 as did Rahab.

James 3

1 We are not rashly or arrogantly to reprove others;
5 but rather to bridle the tongue a little member
9 but a powerful instrument of much good and great harm.
13 The truly wise are mild and peaceable without envy and strife.

James 4

1 We are to strive against covetousness;
4 intemperance;
5 pride;
11 detraction and rash judgment of others;
13 and not to be boastful of our future plans.

James 5

1 Rich oppressors are to fear God's vengeance.
7 We ought to be patient in afflictions after the example of the prophets and Job;
12 to forbear swearing;
13 to pray in adversity to sing in prosperity;
14 to acknowledge mutually our several faults to pray one for another;
19 and to correct a straying brother.

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1 Peter 1

1 Peter praises God for his manifold spiritual graces;
10 showing that the salvation in Christ the fulfillment of prophesy;
13 and exhorts them accordingly to be holy.

1 Peter 2

1 He exhorts to put away wickedness;
4 showing that Christ is the foundation whereupon they are built.
11 He beseeches them also to abstain from sinful desires;
13 to be obedient to authorities;
18 and teaches servants how to obey their masters;
20 patiently suffering for well doing after the example of Christ.

1 Peter 3

1 He teaches the duty of wives and husbands to each other;
8 exhorting all men to unity and love;
14 and to suffer persecution.
19 He declares also the benefits of Christ toward the old world.

1 Peter 4

1 He exhorts them to cease from sin and live fore God
12 and comforts them against persecution.

1 Peter 5

1 He exhorts the elders to feed their flocks;
5 the younger to obey;
8 and all to be sober watchful and constant in the faith;
9 and to resist the cruel adversary the devil.

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2 Peter 1

1 Peter confirms the hope of the increase of God's grace
5 exhorts them by faith and good works to make their calling sure;
12 whereof he is careful to remind them knowing that his death is at hand;
16 and assures them of the authenticity of the Gospel by the eyewitness of the apostles and the prophets.

2 Peter 2

1 Peter warns of false teachers showing the impiety and punishment both of them and their followers;
7 from which the godly shall be delivered as Lot was out of Sodom;
10 and more fully describes the manners of those profane and blasphemous seducers.

2 Peter 3

1 He assures them of the certainty of Christ's coming to judgment;
8 warning the godly for the long patience of God to hasten their repentance.
10 He describes also the manner how the world shall be destroyed;
11 exhorting them to all holiness of life;
16 and again to think the patience of God to tend to their salvation as Paul wrote to them in his epistles.

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1 John 1

1 He describes the person of Christ in whom we have eternal life by a communion with God;
5 to which we must adjoin by walking in the light.

1 John 2

1 He comforts them against the sins of infirmity.
3 Rightly to know God is to keep his commandments;
9 to love our brothers;
15 and not to love the world.
18 We must beware of antichrists;
20 from whose deceits the godly are safe preserved by perseverance in faith and holiness of life.

1 John 3

1 He declares the singular love of God toward us in making us his sons;
3 who therefore ought obediently to keep his commandments;
11 as also to love one another as brothers.

1 John 4

1 He warns them not to believe all who boast of the Spirit;
7 and exhorts to brotherly love.

1 John 5

1 He who loves God loves his children and keeps his commandments;
3 which to the faithful are not grievous.
9 Jesus is the Son of God;
14 and able to hear our prayers.

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2 John 1

1 He exhorts a certain honorable matron with her children to persevere in Christian love and belief
8 lest they lose the reward of their former profession;
10 and to have nothing to do with those seducers that bring not the true doctrine of Christ Jesus.

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3 John 1

1 He commends Gaius for his piety
5 and hospitality
7 to true preachers;
9 complaining of the unkind dealing of ambitious Diotrephes on the contrary side;
11 whose evil example is not to be followed;
12 and gives special testimony to the good report of Demetrius.

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Jude 1

1 He exhorts them to be constant in the profession of the faith.
4 false teachers crept in to seduce them for whose evil doctrine a horrible punishment is prepared;
20 whereas the godly may persevere grow in grace and keep the faith.

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Revelation 1

1 The preface.
4 John's salutation to the seven churches of Asia.
7 The coming of Christ.
8 His glorious power and majesty.

Revelation 2

1 What is commanded to be written to the angels that is the ministers of the churches of Ephesus
8 Smyrna
12 Pergamos
18 Thyatira and what is commended and lacking in them.

Revelation 3

1 The angel of the church of Sardis is reproved and exhorted to repent.
37 The angel of the church of Philadelphia is approved for his diligence and patience;
14 the angel of Laodicea rebuked for being neither hot nor cold.
20 Christ stands at the door and knocks.

Revelation 4

1 John sees the throne of God in heaven.
4 The twenty-four elders.
6 The four beasts full of eyes before and behind.
10 The elders lay down their crowns and worship him who sat on the throne.

Revelation 5

1 The book sealed with seven seals
9 which only the Lamb that was slain is worthy to open.
12 Therefore the elders praise him and confess that he redeemed them with his blood.

Revelation 6

1 The First Seal: Rider on White Horse
3 The Second Seal: War
5 The Third Seal: Famine
7 The Fourth Seal: Death
9 The Fifth Seal: Martyrs
12 The Sixth Seal: Terror

Revelation 7

1 An angel seals the servants of God in their foreheads.
4 The number of those who were sealed of the tribes of Israel: 144000.
9 Of all the other nations an innumerable multitude which stand before the throne.
14 Their robes were washed in the blood of the Lamb.

Revelation 8

1 At the opening of the seventh seal
2 Seven angels have seven trumpets given them.
6 Four of them sound their trumpets and great plagues follow.
9 Another angel puts incense to the prayers of the saints on the golden altar.

Revelation 9

1 At the sounding of the fifth angel a star falls from heaven to whom is given the key to the bottomless pit.
2 He opens the pit and there come forth locusts like scorpions.
12 The first woe past.
13 The sixth trumpet sounds.
14 Four angels who were bound are let loose.

Revelation 10

1 A mighty strong angel appears with a book open in his hand.
6 He swears by him who lives forever that there shall be no more time.
9 John is commanded to take and eat the book.

Revelation 11

1 The two witnesses prophesy.
6 They have power to shut heaven so that it rain not.
7 The beast shall fight against them and kill them.
8 They lie unburied;
11 and after three and a half days rise again.
14 The second woe is past.
15 The seventh trumpet sounds.

Revelation 12

1 A woman clothed with the sun travails.
4 The great red dragon stands before her ready to devour her child;
6 when she is delivered she flees into the desert.
7 Michael and his angels fight with the dragon and prevail.
13 The dragon being cast down into the earth persecutes the woman.

Revelation 13

1 A beast rises out of the sea with seven heads and ten horns to whom the dragon gives his power.
11 Another beast comes out of the earth
14 causes an image to be made of the former beast
15 and that men should worship it
16 and receive his mark.

Revelation 14

1 The Lamb standing on Mount Zion with his company.
6 An angel preaches the gospel.
8 The fall of Babylon.
15 The harvest of the world.
20 The winepress of the wrath of God.

Revelation 15

1 The seven angels with the seven last plagues.
3 The song of those who overcame the beast.
7 The seven bowls full of the wrath of God.

Revelation 16

1 The angels pour out their bowls of wrath.
6 The plagues that follow.
16 Armageddon.

Revelation 17

1 A woman arrayed in purple and scarlet with a golden cup in her hand sits upon the beast;
5 which is great Babylon the mother of all abominations.
9 The interpretation of the seven heads;
12 and the ten horns.
14 The victory of the Lamb.
16 The punishment of the harlot.

Revelation 18

1 Babylon is fallen.
4 People commanded to depart out of her.
9 The kings of the earth with the merchants and mariners lament over her.
20 The saints rejoice for the judgments of God upon her.

Revelation 19

1 God is praised in heaven for judging the great harlot and avenging the blood of his saints.
7 The marriage of the Lamb.
10 The angel will not be worshipped.
17 The birds called to the great slaughter.

Revelation 20

1 Satan bound for a thousand years.
6 The first resurrection;
7 Satan let loose again.
8 Gog and Magog.
10 The demons cast into the lake of fire and brimstone.
11 The last and general resurrection.

Revelation 21

1 A new heaven and a new earth.
10 The heavenly Jerusalem with a full description thereof.
23 She needs no sun the glory of God being her light.
24 The kings of the earth bring their riches unto her.

Revelation 22

1 The river of the water of life.
2 The tree of life.
5 The light of the city of God is himself.
7 Jesus Is Coming.
9 The angel will not be worshipped.
18 Nothing may be added to the word of God nor taken away.