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Malachi 4:5-6 – The Return of Elijah

Malachi 3:16 – The Book of Remembrance

Malachi 3:1 – The Messenger Who Will Prepare the Way of the Lord

Zechariah 12:10 – The Pierced One

Zechariah 11:4-17 – Thirty Pieces of Silver

Zechariah 9:9 – King on a Donkey

Zechariah 8:3-13 – A Restored Jerusalem

Zechariah 3:8-10; 6:11-5 – The Branch

Zechariah 1:8; 6:1-8 – The “Four Horsemen” (but not really)

Haggai 2:1-9 – A More Glorious Second Temple

Micah 5:2-5a – A New Ruler Will Come from Bethlehem

Jonah 1:17 – The Great Fish

Joel 2:28-29 – “I Will Pour Out My Spirit on All Flesh.”

Ezekiel 38:1-39:29 – The Lord Destroys Gog, the Enemy of God’s People

Jeremiah 31:31-34 – The New Covenant

Jeremiah 23:1-8 and 33:14-16 – The Righteous Branch

Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 – Is There No Balm in Gilead?

Jeremiah 7:1-15 – The Temple Sermon

Luke 3:1-20 – The Teachings of John the Baptist

Isaiah 61:1-3 – Liberty to the Captives

Isaiah 60:1-7 – The Nations Come with Gold and Frankincense

Isaiah 58:6-12 – The Fast that God Chooses

Isaiah 56:1-8 – Gathering the Outcasts

Isaiah 55:1-5 – Without Money and Without Price

Isaiah 52:13-53:12 – Wounded for Our Transgressions

Isaiah 50:4-9 – The Lord God Helps Me

Isaiah 46:1-4 – I Will Carry and Will Save

Isaiah 42:1-4 – This Is My Servant

Isaiah 40:1-11 – Comfort My People

Isaiah 35:1-7 – Here Is Your God–Who Restores All Things

Isaiah 34:5-7 – The Sword of the Lord

Isaiah 26:19 – Your Dead Shall Live

Isaiah 14:3-23 – Taunt Song against the King of Babylon

Isaiah 7:10-17 – The Sign of Immanuel

Isaiah 6:1-13 – Isaiah’s Call

Isaiah 5:1-7 – The Song of the Vineyard

Proverbs 12:25 – Avoid Anxiety

Proverbs 8:22-31 – Woman Wisdom and Creation

Proverbs 2:1-8 – A Treasure Hunt

Psalm 113 – Who Is Like the Lord Our God?

Psalm 69:19-21 – Vinegar for My Thirst

Psalm 31:5 – Into Your Hand I Commit My Spirit

Psalm 27:1 – The Lord Is My Light and My Salvation

Psalm 23 – The Lord Is My Shepherd

Psalm 22 – My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?

2 Kings 6:1-7 – The Floating Ax Head

2 Kings 5:1-27 – Naaman the Syrian

2 Kings 4:42-44 – The Feeding of the One Hundred

2 Kings 4:38-41 – Death in the Pot

2 Kings 4:8-37 – Elisha and the Shunammite Woman

2 Samuel 7:1-16 – Nathan’s Oracle

1 Samuel 21:1-9 – David and the Holy Bread

1 Samuel 15:34-16:13 – Samuel Anoints David King

1 Samuel 2:1-10 – Hannah’s Song

Ruth 4:18-22 – David’s Genealogy

Joshua 2:1-24 – The Spies and Rahab

Deuteronomy 18:15-20 – A Prophet Like Moses

Deuteronomy 5:18 – Adultery

Numbers 21:4-9 – The Bronze Serpent

Numbers 20:2-13 – Water from the Rock

Numbers 11:16-30 – The Seventy Elders

Leviticus 25 – The Sabbatical Year and the Year of Jubilee

Leviticus 19:18 – “Love Your Neighbor as Yourself”

Leviticus 11 – Clean and Unclean Animals

Exodus 33:19 – I Will Be Gracious to Whom I Will Be Gracious

Exodus 19:5-6 – A Priestly Kingdom and a Holy Nation

Genesis 38:1-30 – The Righteousness of Tamar

Genesis 15:1-6 – Abraham Believed and It Was Reckoned to Him as Righteousness

‘All Israel’ and the Faithfulness of God

Everything I Knew about the Transfiguration Was Wrong

Passages that Sing: Luke 1-2

Was Isaiah Thinking of Jesus?

1.48: My Favorite Bible Passage: The First Two Chapters of Luke

1.18: Was Isaiah Thinking about Jesus?

Baby Immanuel: Isaiah

The Suffering Servant of Isaiah

Spirit Poured Out: Book of Joel

The ‘I Am’ Sayings in John

Rahab: The Book of Joshua

The Most Famous Passage in Leviticus

God with Us: Matthew

Bethlehem: Micah

Last Book of Canon: Revelation

Hebrews: Faith and Promise