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The mourning in this section is based on the piercing of the L ORD, who is the only one speaking in the first person throughout chapters 12 to 14; first compared to the loss of an only (or firstborn) son (verse 10), then to the death of king Josiah in the "plain of Megiddo" (verse 11; cf. 2 Chronicles 35:20–25; 2 Kings 23:29–30; traced to ...
Luke 12 is the 12th chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records a number of teachings and parables told by Jesus Christ when "an innumerable multitude of people had gathered together", but addressed "first of all" to his disciples .
In the Hebrew Bible it is part of the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets. [4] This chapter is a part of a section (so-called "Second Zechariah") consisting of Zechariah 9 –14. [ 5 ] It continues the theme of chapters 12 and 13 about the 'war preceding peace for Jerusalem in the eschatological future'. [ 6 ]
The usual suggestion is that this figure represents the triumph of the Jewish people over their oppressor; the main alternative view is that he is the angelic leader of God's heavenly host, a connection made explicitly in chapters 10–12, where the reader is told that the conflict on Earth is mirrored by a war in heaven between Michael, the ...
"Eliashib the high priest": Eliashib was the son of Joiakim, and the grandson of Jeshua the high priest (Ezra 3:2; Nehemiah 12:10). [11] Nehemiah begins with the work of Eliashib the high priest and his fellow priests to symbolize 'the holy and noble task' in which everyone was engaged.
(Summary of Daniel 4 partly based on the translation of C. L. Seow in his commentary on Daniel.) [2]. Nebuchadnezzar II, King of Babylon, addresses a letter "to all peoples, nations and languages that live throughout the earth" telling them he will recount the "signs and wonders" that the Most High God has worked for me."
Nehemiah 12 is the twelfth chapter of the Book of Nehemiah in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, [1] or the 22nd chapter of the book of Ezra-Nehemiah in the Hebrew Bible, which treats the book of Ezra and the book of Nehemiah as one book. [2]
The Mount of the Congregation in the Old Testament (Isaiah 14:13), has been supposed to refer to the place where God met with angels in the uttermost north of the 3rd Heaven, first and second heavens being Earth's atmosphere and outerspace respectively (2 Corinthians 2:12; Nehemiah 9:6) i.e., the mount of the Divine presence.