Tag: Apocrypha

Bridging the Gap: Understanding the Significance of the Intertestamental Period In the vast expanse of biblical history, there exists a pivotal but often overlooked era known as the Intertestamental Period. Also referred to as the deuterocanonical period in Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions, ...

1Esdr.1 [1] Josiah kept the passover to his Lord in Jerusalem; he killed the passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the first month,[2] having placed the priests according to their divisions, arrayed in their garments, in the temple of the Lord.[3] And he told the Levites, the temple servants of Isr ...

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EpJer.6 [1] A copy of a letter which Jeremiah sent to those who were to be taken to Babylon as captives by the king of the Babylonians, to give them the message which God had commanded him.[2] Because of the sins which you have committed before God, you will be taken to Babylon as captives by Nebuch...

PrMan.1 [2] thou who hast made heaven and earthwith all their order;[3] who hast shackled the sea by thy word of command,who hast confined the deepand sealed it with thy terrible and glorious name;[4] at whom all things shudder,and tremble before thy power,[5] for thy glorious splendor cannot be bor...

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Jdt.1 [1] In the twelfth year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled over the Assyrians in the great city of Nineveh, in the days of Arphaxad, who ruled over the Medes in Ecbatana --[2] he is the king who built walls about Ecbatana with hewn stones three cubits thick and six cubits long; he made ...

1 Maccabees 1Mac.1 [1] After Alexander son of Philip, the Macedonian, who came from the land of Kittim, had defeated Darius, king of the Persians and the Medes, he succeeded him as king. (He had previously become king of Greece.)[2] He fought many battles, conquered strongholds, and put to death the ...

4 Ezra 4Ezra.1 [1] The second book of the prophet Ezra the son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah, son of Shallum, son of Zadok, son of Ahitub,[2] son of Ahijah, son of Phinehas, son of Eli, son of Amariah, son of Azariah, son of Meraioth, son of Arna, son of Uzzi, son of Borith, son of Abis ...

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