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Hosea Chapter 3

The prophet symbolizes Israel’s desolation before restoration

Hosea Chapter 2

Idolatry of the people
God’s judgments on them
Reconciliation promised

Peace – Shalom

Search just this page Taken from the Encyclopedia Judaica Volume 13:195 – 196 Wholeness and Well-Being in the Bible the verb shalem, in both the perfect Gen. 15:16 and participle forms Gen. 33:18, represents a powerful concept of ‘wholeness, completeness and soundness’ in the qal. “PEACE.” This range of meanings is both profound and inspirational. […]

Hosea Chapter 1

Time of Hosea
Hosea’s mystical showing of God’s judgements on harlotry

Daniel Chapter 12

Michael, the great ruler,to deliver the deliver the Israelites
Daniel’s information of the times

Daniel Chapter 11

Overthrow of Persia by Greece
Conflicts between other kings and nations
Impious tyranny of Rome

Daniel Chapter 9

Daniel’s confession
Daniel’s prayer for Jerusalem
The seventy weeks foretold

Daniel Chapter 8

Daniel’s vision of the Ram and the he goat
Days of sacrifice
The vision interpreted

Daniel Chapter 7

Daniel’s vision of four beast
The Ancient of Days Reigns
The interpretation

Daniel Chapter 6

Daniel is made ruler of the presidents
A conspiracy
Daniel thrown into the lions’ den
Daniel ‘s deliverance

Daniel Chapter 5

Impious feast of Belshazzar
Handwriting on the wall
Daniel’s interpretation
Belshazzar is killed and Medes

Daniel Chapter 4

Nebuchadnezzar acknowledges God’s dominion
Nebuchadnezzar relates a dream
Daniel’s tells the meaning of the dream
The dream fulfilled

Daniel Chapter 3

The golden idol set up
Delivery of Shadrack, Meshach and Abednego

Daniel Chapter 2

Nebuchadnezzar forgets his dream
It is revealed to Daniel
Daniel’s interpretation
Daniel is advanced

Daniel Chapter 1

Time of Daniel
Daniel and other princes are selected by Ashpenaz
Their wisdom

The Harvest Festival – Sukkoth

“On the fifteenth day of this seventh month (five days after Yom Kippur) the festival of Sukkot {shall be celebrated) seven days unto the Lord. ”
(Leviticus 23:34-36)

2nd Maccabees Chapter 15

Nicanor’s blasphemies
Judas lectures his men. His dream
The disposition of the combatants
The defeat and death of Nicanor
Compiler’s epilogue

2nd Maccabees Chapter 14

VII: The Conflict with Nicanor, General of Demetrius I, The Day of Nicanor
Alcimus the high priest intervenes
Nicanor makes friends with Judas
Alcimus rekindles hostilities, and Nicanor threatens the temple
The Death of Razis

2nd Maccabees Chapter 13

The campaign of Antiochus V and Lysias, Horrible death of Menelaus
The prayers and success of the Jews Near Modein
Antiochus V negotiates with the Jews

2nd Maccabees Chapter 12

Incidents at Joppa and Jamnia
The Expedition in Gilead
The battle of Carnaim
The return by the way of Ephron and Scythopolis
The Campaign against Gorgias
The sacrifice for the fallen

2nd Maccabees Chapter 11

The first campaign of Lysias
Lysias makes peace with the Jews. Four letters concerning the treaty

2nd Maccabees Chapter 10

The Purification of the Temple
VI The Struggle of Judas against the Neighboring people and against Lysias, Minister of Antiochus V
Reign of Antiochus V: early years
Gorgias and the Idumaean fortress
Judas defeats Timotheus and captures Gezer

2nd Maccabees Chapter 8

V: The Victory of Judaism
The death of the persecutor and the purification of the Temple
Judas Maccabeus and the resistance
Campaign of Nicanor and Gorgias
The defeat of Timotheus and Bacchides
The flight and testimony of Nicanor

2nd Maccabees Chapter 6

Gentile cults imposed
Coincidental significance of the persecution
The martyrdom of Eleazar

2nd Maccabees Chapter 5

Second Egyptian campaign
Jason’s insurrection; counteraction by Antiochus Epiphanes
Pillage of the Temple
Activities of Apollonius the Mysarch

2nd Maccabees Chapter 4

IV: Hellenistic Propaganda and persecution under Antiochus Ephiphanes
Misdeeds of Simon, Administrator of the Temple
Jason the high priest, Introduces Hellenism
Antiochus Epiphanes is praised in Jerusalem
Menelaus becomes high priest
The murder of Onias
Lysimachus killed in an insurrection
Menelaus buys his acquittal

2nd Maccabees Chapter 3

III the Story of Helodorus
The arrival of Helodorus
Unease In Jerusalem
The Punishment of Helodorus
The conversion of Helodorus

2nd Maccabees Chapter 2

eremiah Conceals the tent, ark and altar
Nehemiah’s library
An invitation to the dedication
II: Compilers Preface

2nd Maccabees Chapter 1

Letters to the Jews of Egypt
First letter
Second letter
Address
Thanksgiving for the Punishment of Antiochus
The miraculous preservation of the sacred fire

1st Maccabees Chapter 16

The Victory of Simon’s Sons over Cendebareus
Simon’s tragic Death at Dok. Simon’s son John succeeds him

1st Maccabees Chapter 15

Letter of Antiochus VII and siege of Dora
The Ambassadors return from Rome to Judea
The league with Rome
Antiochus VII besieging Dora, become hostile to Simon and sends him a reprimand
Cendebaues, governor of the coastal region, harasses Judea

1st Maccabees Chapter 14

Eulogy of Simon
Renewal of the league with Sparta and with Rome
Official Honors decreed for Simon