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45:4–5","also":[],"labs":[]},"jacob-family-to-egypt":{"id":"jacob-family-to-egypt","level":3,"parent":"patriarchs","children":["jacob-beersheba-to-egypt","jacob-meets-joseph-goshen","jacob-blesses-sons","jacob-joseph-deaths"],"era":"patriarchs","color":"#b0894f","title":"Israel goes down to Egypt","summary":"Jacob's family settles in Goshen; Jacob blesses his sons, and Joseph sees God's good purpose in all that happened.","ref":"GEN 46:1-50:26","refLabel":"Genesis 46:1 – 50:26","key":"GEN 50:20","keyLabel":"Genesis 50:20","also":[],"timeMap":{"id":"to-egypt","name":"Jacob's family moves to Egypt"},"labs":["life-phases"]},"jacob-beersheba-to-egypt":{"id":"jacob-beersheba-to-egypt","level":4,"parent":"jacob-family-to-egypt","children":[],"era":"patriarchs","color":"#b0894f","title":"Do not be afraid to go down","summary":"At Beersheba God tells Jacob not to fear going to Egypt, for he will make him a great nation there.","ref":"GEN 46:1-7","refLabel":"Genesis 46:1–7","key":"GEN 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1-42","refLabel":"Job 1–42","key":"JOB 19:25","keyLabel":"Job 19:25","also":[],"timeMap":{"id":"book-job","name":"Job"},"labs":[],"evidence":"speculative","note":"The book of Job gives no date; its setting is traditionally placed in the patriarchal age."},"job-tested":{"id":"job-tested","level":4,"parent":"job-trial","children":[],"era":"patriarchs","color":"#b0894f","title":"The test","summary":"Satan claims Job fears God only for gain; Job loses his wealth, children and health, yet does not curse God.","ref":"JOB 1:1-2:13","refLabel":"Job 1:1 – 2:13","key":"JOB 1:21","keyLabel":"Job 1:21","also":[],"labs":[]},"job-friends-debate":{"id":"job-friends-debate","level":4,"parent":"job-trial","children":[],"era":"patriarchs","color":"#b0894f","title":"Job and his friends","summary":"Job curses his birth; his friends insist he suffers for sin, and Job protests his innocence and looks to his redeemer.","ref":"JOB 3:1-31:40","refLabel":"Job 3:1 – 31:40","key":"JOB 19:25-26","keyLabel":"Job 19:25–26","also":[],"labs":[]},"job-god-whirlwind":{"id":"job-god-whirlwind","level":4,"parent":"job-trial","children":[],"era":"patriarchs","color":"#b0894f","title":"God answers from the whirlwind","summary":"The LORD asks Job where he was when the earth was founded; Job repents in dust and ashes.","ref":"JOB 38:1-42:6","refLabel":"Job 38:1 – 42:6","key":"JOB 38:4","keyLabel":"Job 38:4","also":[],"labs":[]},"job-restored":{"id":"job-restored","level":4,"parent":"job-trial","children":[],"era":"patriarchs","color":"#b0894f","title":"Job restored","summary":"God rebukes the friends, Job prays for them, and the LORD gives Job twice as much as he had before.","ref":"JOB 42:7-17","refLabel":"Job 42:7–17","key":"JOB 42:10","keyLabel":"Job 42:10","also":[{"ref":"JAS 5:11","label":"James 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7:23-29","label":"Acts 7:23–29"}],"labs":[]},"moses-at-the-well":{"id":"moses-at-the-well","level":4,"parent":"moses-flees-to-midian","children":[],"era":"exodus","color":"#c46b3c","title":"At the well of Midian","summary":"Moses defends the priest's daughters at a well, marries Zipporah and names his son Gershom, a stranger in a strange land.","ref":"EXO 2:16-22","refLabel":"Exodus 2:16–22","key":"EXO 2:22","keyLabel":"Exodus 2:22","also":[],"labs":[]},"god-hears-the-groaning":{"id":"god-hears-the-groaning","level":4,"parent":"moses-flees-to-midian","children":[],"era":"exodus","color":"#c46b3c","title":"God hears their groaning","summary":"The king of Egypt dies; Israel cries out, and God remembers his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.","ref":"EXO 2:23-25","refLabel":"Exodus 2:23–25","key":"EXO 2:24-25","keyLabel":"Exodus 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proposed."},"israel-at-sinai":{"id":"israel-at-sinai","level":4,"parent":"covenant-at-sinai","children":[],"era":"exodus","color":"#c46b3c","title":"Israel at the mountain","summary":"God offers Israel to be a kingdom of priests; the mountain smokes and trembles as he comes down.","ref":"EXO 19:1-25","refLabel":"Exodus 19:1–25","key":"EXO 19:5-6","keyLabel":"Exodus 19:5–6","also":[{"ref":"1PE 2:9","label":"1 Peter 2:9"}],"timeMap":{"id":"sinai-covenant","name":"The law at Sinai"},"labs":[]},"ten-commandments":{"id":"ten-commandments","level":4,"parent":"covenant-at-sinai","children":[],"era":"exodus","color":"#c46b3c","title":"The Ten Commandments","summary":"God speaks the ten words to the people; afraid, they ask Moses to speak to God for them.","ref":"EXO 20:1-21","refLabel":"Exodus 20:1–21","key":"EXO 20:2-3","keyLabel":"Exodus 20:2–3","also":[{"ref":"DEU 5:6-21","label":"Deuteronomy 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gracious; Moses brings down new tablets with his face shining.","ref":"EXO 34:1-35","refLabel":"Exodus 34:1–35","key":"EXO 34:6-7","keyLabel":"Exodus 34:6–7","also":[],"labs":[]},"tabernacle-built":{"id":"tabernacle-built","level":3,"parent":"exodus","children":["tabernacle-pattern","priests-and-garments","willing-offering-bezalel","glory-fills-the-tabernacle"],"era":"exodus","color":"#c46b3c","title":"The tabernacle","summary":"God gives Moses the pattern of a tent where he will live among Israel; the people build it and his glory fills it.","ref":"EXO 25:1-31:18","refLabel":"Exodus 25:1 – 31:18","key":"EXO 25:8","keyLabel":"Exodus 25:8","also":[{"ref":"EXO 35:1-40:38","label":"Exodus 35:1 – 40:38"}],"timeMap":{"id":"tabernacle","name":"The tabernacle is set up"},"labs":["tabernacle"]},"tabernacle-pattern":{"id":"tabernacle-pattern","level":4,"parent":"tabernacle-built","children":[],"era":"exodus","color":"#c46b3c","title":"The pattern on the mountain","summary":"The ark, the table, the lampstand, the curtains, the altar and the court, all made after the pattern shown to Moses.","ref":"EXO 25:1-27:21","refLabel":"Exodus 25:1 – 27:21","key":"EXO 25:8-9","keyLabel":"Exodus 25:8–9","also":[],"labs":["tabernacle"]},"priests-and-garments":{"id":"priests-and-garments","level":4,"parent":"tabernacle-built","children":[],"era":"exodus","color":"#c46b3c","title":"Priests and their garments","summary":"Aaron and his sons are clothed and consecrated to serve, so that God may dwell among Israel and be their God.","ref":"EXO 28:1-29:46","refLabel":"Exodus 28:1 – 29:46","key":"EXO 29:45-46","keyLabel":"Exodus 29:45–46","also":[],"labs":["tabernacle"]},"willing-offering-bezalel":{"id":"willing-offering-bezalel","level":4,"parent":"tabernacle-built","children":[],"era":"exodus","color":"#c46b3c","title":"Willing hearts and skilled hands","summary":"The people bring more than enough, and Bezalel and Oholiab, filled with God's Spirit, lead the work.","ref":"EXO 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given"},"labs":["feast-of-tabernacles"]},"spies-and-forty-years":{"id":"spies-and-forty-years","level":3,"parent":"exodus","children":["craving-and-seventy-elders","twelve-spies","forty-years-sentence"],"era":"exodus","color":"#c46b3c","title":"The spies and forty years","summary":"Israel complains on the way, then refuses to enter Canaan after the spies' report, and is sentenced to forty years.","ref":"NUM 11:1-14:45","refLabel":"Numbers 11:1 – 14:45","key":"NUM 14:8-9","keyLabel":"Numbers 14:8–9","also":[],"timeMap":{"id":"wilderness","name":"Forty years in the wilderness"},"labs":[]},"craving-and-seventy-elders":{"id":"craving-and-seventy-elders","level":4,"parent":"spies-and-forty-years","children":[],"era":"exodus","color":"#c46b3c","title":"Craving meat; seventy elders","summary":"The people weep for meat; God puts his Spirit on seventy elders and sends quail, with a plague.","ref":"NUM 11:1-35","refLabel":"Numbers 11:1–35","key":"NUM 11:23","keyLabel":"Numbers 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22:12","keyLabel":"Numbers 22:12","also":[],"labs":[]},"balaams-donkey":{"id":"balaams-donkey","level":4,"parent":"balaam","children":[],"era":"exodus","color":"#c46b3c","title":"Balaam's donkey","summary":"The donkey sees the angel of Yahweh blocking the road and speaks; then Balaam's eyes are opened.","ref":"NUM 22:21-35","refLabel":"Numbers 22:21–35","key":"NUM 22:31","keyLabel":"Numbers 22:31","also":[],"labs":[]},"balaams-oracles":{"id":"balaams-oracles","level":4,"parent":"balaam","children":[],"era":"exodus","color":"#c46b3c","title":"Blessings instead of curses","summary":"From the heights Balaam blesses Israel four times and sees a star coming out of Jacob.","ref":"NUM 23:1-24:25","refLabel":"Numbers 23:1 – 24:25","key":"NUM 24:17","keyLabel":"Numbers 24:17","also":[{"ref":"NUM 23:19","label":"Numbers 23:19"}],"labs":[]},"moses-farewell":{"id":"moses-farewell","level":3,"parent":"exodus","children":["the-shema","choose-life","joshua-charged-song-of-moses","moses-blesses-the-tribes"],"era":"exodus","color":"#c46b3c","title":"Moses' farewell","summary":"On the plains of Moab Moses retells the journey, repeats the law, and calls the new generation to love God and choose life.","ref":"DEU 1-33","refLabel":"Deuteronomy 1–33","key":"DEU 6:4-5","keyLabel":"Deuteronomy 6:4–5","also":[],"timeMap":{"id":"book-deu","name":"Deuteronomy"},"labs":[]},"the-shema":{"id":"the-shema","level":4,"parent":"moses-farewell","children":[],"era":"exodus","color":"#c46b3c","title":"Hear, Israel","summary":"Yahweh is one; love him with all your heart, soul and might, and teach these words to your children.","ref":"DEU 6:1-25","refLabel":"Deuteronomy 6:1–25","key":"DEU 6:4-5","keyLabel":"Deuteronomy 6:4–5","also":[{"ref":"MRK 12:29-30","label":"Mark 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army","summary":"Near Jericho a man with a drawn sword meets Joshua; Joshua falls on his face and takes off his sandals.","ref":"JOS 5:13-15","refLabel":"Joshua 5:13–15","key":"JOS 5:14","keyLabel":"Joshua 5:14","also":[],"labs":[]},"fall-of-jericho":{"id":"fall-of-jericho","level":3,"parent":"judges","children":["march-around-jericho","walls-fall-down","rahab-spared"],"era":"judges","color":"#8b9a4a","title":"The fall of Jericho","summary":"Israel marches around Jericho for seven days, the priests blow the trumpets, the people shout, and the wall falls.","ref":"JOS 6:1-27","refLabel":"Joshua 6:1–27","key":"JOS 6:20","keyLabel":"Joshua 6:20","also":[{"ref":"HEB 11:30","label":"Hebrews 11:30"}],"timeMap":{"id":"jericho","name":"Crossing the Jordan and Jericho"},"labs":[],"evidence":"plausible","note":"The date of Jericho's fall follows the debated Exodus date, and excavators read the city's destruction layers differently."},"march-around-jericho":{"id":"march-around-jericho","level":4,"parent":"fall-of-jericho","children":[],"era":"judges","color":"#8b9a4a","title":"Seven days around the walls","summary":"God tells Joshua he has given Jericho into his hand; the army and the ark circle the city once a day.","ref":"JOS 6:1-14","refLabel":"Joshua 6:1–14","key":"JOS 6:2","keyLabel":"Joshua 6:2","also":[],"labs":[]},"walls-fall-down":{"id":"walls-fall-down","level":4,"parent":"fall-of-jericho","children":[],"era":"judges","color":"#8b9a4a","title":"The wall falls down flat","summary":"On the seventh day they circle it seven times, the trumpets sound, the people shout, and the wall falls.","ref":"JOS 6:15-21","refLabel":"Joshua 6:15–21","key":"JOS 6:20","keyLabel":"Joshua 6:20","also":[],"labs":[]},"rahab-spared":{"id":"rahab-spared","level":4,"parent":"fall-of-jericho","children":[],"era":"judges","color":"#8b9a4a","title":"Rahab is spared","summary":"The spies bring out Rahab and all her family, and she lives in Israel from that day on.","ref":"JOS 6:22-27","refLabel":"Joshua 6:22–27","key":"JOS 6:25","keyLabel":"Joshua 6:25","also":[],"labs":[]},"achan-and-ai":{"id":"achan-and-ai","level":3,"parent":"judges","children":["achans-sin","ai-taken","sun-stands-still"],"era":"judges","color":"#8b9a4a","title":"Ai and Gibeon","summary":"Achan's hidden plunder brings defeat at Ai; after judgment Ai is taken, and defending Gibeon Joshua sees the sun stand still.","ref":"JOS 7:1-10:43","refLabel":"Joshua 7:1 – 10:43","key":"JOS 7:11","keyLabel":"Joshua 7:11","also":[],"labs":[],"evidence":"speculative","note":"The site of Ai is uncertain; et-Tell and Khirbet el-Maqatir are the main candidates."},"achans-sin":{"id":"achans-sin","level":4,"parent":"achan-and-ai","children":[],"era":"judges","color":"#8b9a4a","title":"Achan's sin","summary":"Lots point to Achan, who confesses he coveted a robe, silver and gold and hid them in his tent.","ref":"JOS 7:10-26","refLabel":"Joshua 7:10–26","key":"JOS 7:20-21","keyLabel":"Joshua 7:20–21","also":[],"labs":[]},"ai-taken":{"id":"ai-taken","level":4,"parent":"achan-and-ai","children":[],"era":"judges","color":"#8b9a4a","title":"Ai is taken","summary":"\"Fear not\": Joshua sets an ambush behind the city, draws its army out, and Ai is burned.","ref":"JOS 8:1-29","refLabel":"Joshua 8:1–29","key":"JOS 8:1","keyLabel":"Joshua 8:1","also":[],"labs":[]},"sun-stands-still":{"id":"sun-stands-still","level":4,"parent":"achan-and-ai","children":[],"era":"judges","color":"#8b9a4a","title":"The sun stands still","summary":"Five kings attack Gibeon; Joshua marches all night, hail falls, and the sun stays in the sky a whole day.","ref":"JOS 10:1-15","refLabel":"Joshua 10:1–15","key":"JOS 10:13-14","keyLabel":"Joshua 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14:12","also":[],"labs":[]},"tabernacle-at-shiloh":{"id":"tabernacle-at-shiloh","level":4,"parent":"dividing-the-land","children":[],"era":"judges","color":"#8b9a4a","title":"The tent at Shiloh","summary":"Israel sets up the tent of meeting at Shiloh, and Joshua casts lots for the remaining tribes before Yahweh.","ref":"JOS 18:1-10","refLabel":"Joshua 18:1–10","key":"JOS 18:1","keyLabel":"Joshua 18:1","also":[],"timeMap":{"id":"shiloh","name":"The tabernacle at Shiloh"},"labs":["tabernacle"]},"cities-of-refuge":{"id":"cities-of-refuge","level":4,"parent":"dividing-the-land","children":[],"era":"judges","color":"#8b9a4a","title":"Cities of refuge","summary":"Six cities are set apart where anyone who kills a person by accident can flee from the avenger of blood.","ref":"JOS 20:1-9","refLabel":"Joshua 20:1–9","key":"JOS 20:2-3","keyLabel":"Joshua 20:2–3","also":[],"labs":[]},"no-promise-failed":{"id":"no-promise-failed","level":4,"parent":"dividing-the-land","children":[],"era":"judges","color":"#8b9a4a","title":"Not one promise failed","summary":"God gives Israel all the land he swore to their fathers and rest on every side; every good word comes true.","ref":"JOS 21:43-45","refLabel":"Joshua 21:43–45","key":"JOS 21:45","keyLabel":"Joshua 21:45","also":[],"labs":[]},"joshuas-farewell":{"id":"joshuas-farewell","level":3,"parent":"judges","children":["joshua-charges-the-leaders","covenant-at-shechem","joshua-dies"],"era":"judges","color":"#8b9a4a","title":"Joshua's farewell","summary":"Old Joshua charges Israel to hold fast to Yahweh, renews the covenant at Shechem, and dies at 110.","ref":"JOS 22:1-24:33","refLabel":"Joshua 22:1 – 24:33","key":"JOS 24:15","keyLabel":"Joshua 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Eglon","summary":"Left-handed Ehud brings tribute to fat King Eglon of Moab, kills him with a hidden sword, and Israel has rest.","ref":"JDG 3:12-30","refLabel":"Judges 3:12–30","key":"JDG 3:15","keyLabel":"Judges 3:15","also":[],"labs":[]},"deborah-and-barak":{"id":"deborah-and-barak","level":3,"parent":"judges","children":["deborah-judges-israel","jael-and-sisera","song-of-deborah"],"era":"judges","color":"#8b9a4a","title":"Deborah and Barak","summary":"The prophetess Deborah sends Barak against Sisera's iron chariots; Yahweh routs them and Jael kills Sisera.","ref":"JDG 4:1-5:31","refLabel":"Judges 4:1 – 5:31","key":"JDG 4:14","keyLabel":"Judges 4:14","also":[],"timeMap":{"id":"deborah","name":"Deborah and Barak"},"labs":[]},"deborah-judges-israel":{"id":"deborah-judges-israel","level":4,"parent":"deborah-and-barak","children":[],"era":"judges","color":"#8b9a4a","title":"Deborah under the palm tree","summary":"Deborah judges Israel under her palm tree and summons Barak; he will go only if she goes with him.","ref":"JDG 4:1-10","refLabel":"Judges 4:1–10","key":"JDG 4:4-5","keyLabel":"Judges 4:4–5","also":[],"labs":[]},"jael-and-sisera":{"id":"jael-and-sisera","level":4,"parent":"deborah-and-barak","children":[],"era":"judges","color":"#8b9a4a","title":"Jael and Sisera","summary":"Sisera flees to the tent of Jael, who gives him milk and, as he sleeps, drives a tent peg through his temple.","ref":"JDG 4:17-24","refLabel":"Judges 4:17–24","key":"JDG 4:21","keyLabel":"Judges 4:21","also":[],"labs":[]},"song-of-deborah":{"id":"song-of-deborah","level":4,"parent":"deborah-and-barak","children":[],"era":"judges","color":"#8b9a4a","title":"The song of Deborah","summary":"Deborah and Barak sing of the stars fighting from heaven, and the land has rest forty years.","ref":"JDG 5:1-31","refLabel":"Judges 5:1–31","key":"JDG 5:31","keyLabel":"Judges 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Nazirite from birth, Samson fights the Philistines with great strength, is betrayed by Delilah, and dies bringing down Dagon's house.","ref":"JDG 13:1-16:31","refLabel":"Judges 13:1 – 16:31","key":"JDG 16:28","keyLabel":"Judges 16:28","also":[{"ref":"HEB 11:32","label":"Hebrews 11:32"}],"timeMap":{"id":"samson","name":"Samson"},"labs":[]},"samson-birth-announced":{"id":"samson-birth-announced","level":4,"parent":"samson","children":[],"era":"judges","color":"#8b9a4a","title":"A Nazirite from the womb","summary":"The angel of Yahweh tells Manoah's barren wife she will bear a son who will begin to save Israel from the Philistines.","ref":"JDG 13:1-25","refLabel":"Judges 13:1–25","key":"JDG 13:5","keyLabel":"Judges 13:5","also":[],"labs":[]},"lion-and-riddle":{"id":"lion-and-riddle","level":4,"parent":"samson","children":[],"era":"judges","color":"#8b9a4a","title":"The lion and the riddle","summary":"Samson tears a lion apart, later finds honey in its carcass, and poses a riddle at his 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(Psalm 22)","summary":"A cry of abandonment turns to praise; Jesus prays its first line from the cross.","ref":"PSA 22:1-31","refLabel":"Psalm 22:1–31","key":"PSA 22:1","keyLabel":"Psalm 22:1","also":[{"ref":"MAT 27:46","label":"Matthew 27:46"}],"labs":[]},"psalm-110-my-lord":{"id":"psalm-110-my-lord","level":4,"parent":"psalms-of-david","children":[],"era":"united","color":"#3f7f8c","title":"The LORD says to my Lord (Psalm 110)","summary":"David hears God enthrone a king and priest forever; the New Testament applies it to Christ.","ref":"PSA 110:1-7","refLabel":"Psalm 110:1–7","key":"PSA 110:1","keyLabel":"Psalm 110:1","also":[{"ref":"MAT 22:41-45","label":"Matthew 22:41–45"},{"ref":"HEB 5:5-6","label":"Hebrews 5:5–6"}],"labs":[]},"proverbs-of-solomon":{"id":"proverbs-of-solomon","level":3,"parent":"united","children":["beginning-of-knowledge","trust-in-the-lord-proverbs-3","worthy-woman-proverbs-31"],"era":"united","color":"#3f7f8c","title":"Proverbs: the fear of the 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21:3","also":[],"labs":[]},"micaiah-prophesies":{"id":"micaiah-prophesies","level":4,"parent":"ahab-and-naboth","children":[],"era":"divided","color":"#4a6aa5","title":"Micaiah's lone voice","summary":"Four hundred prophets promise victory; Micaiah alone tells what the LORD says and is put in prison.","ref":"1KI 22:1-28","refLabel":"1 Kings 22:1–28","key":"1KI 22:14","keyLabel":"1 Kings 22:14","also":[],"labs":[]},"ahab-dies-at-ramoth":{"id":"ahab-dies-at-ramoth","level":4,"parent":"ahab-and-naboth","children":[],"era":"divided","color":"#4a6aa5","title":"Ahab dies at Ramoth Gilead","summary":"Though disguised in battle, Ahab is struck by an arrow shot at random and dies as foretold.","ref":"1KI 22:29-40","refLabel":"1 Kings 22:29–40","key":"1KI 22:34","keyLabel":"1 Kings 22:34","also":[],"labs":[]},"elijah-taken-up":{"id":"elijah-taken-up","level":3,"parent":"divided","children":["chariot-of-fire","elisha-takes-the-cloak"],"era":"divided","color":"#4a6aa5","title":"Elijah taken 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Kings 2:13–18","key":"2KI 2:14-15","keyLabel":"2 Kings 2:14–15","also":[],"timeMap":{"id":"elisha","name":"Elisha"},"labs":[]},"elisha-wonders":{"id":"elisha-wonders","level":3,"parent":"divided","children":["widows-oil","shunammite-son","naaman-washes-in-jordan","dothan-chariots","four-lepers"],"era":"divided","color":"#4a6aa5","title":"Elisha's wonders","summary":"Through Elisha God fills a widow's jars, raises a boy, heals the Syrian Naaman and guards Samaria from Aram.","ref":"2KI 4:1-7:20","refLabel":"2 Kings 4:1 – 7:20","key":"2KI 4:7","keyLabel":"2 Kings 4:7","also":[{"ref":"LUK 4:27","label":"Luke 4:27"}],"timeMap":{"id":"elisha","name":"Elisha"},"labs":[]},"widows-oil":{"id":"widows-oil","level":4,"parent":"elisha-wonders","children":[],"era":"divided","color":"#4a6aa5","title":"The widow's oil","summary":"A prophet's widow pours her little oil into borrowed jars until every one is full, and her debt is paid.","ref":"2KI 4:1-7","refLabel":"2 Kings 4:1–7","key":"2KI 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11:12","also":[],"labs":[]},"jonah-and-nineveh":{"id":"jonah-and-nineveh","level":3,"parent":"divided","children":["jonah-flees","jonah-great-fish","nineveh-repents","jonah-and-the-vine"],"era":"divided","color":"#4a6aa5","title":"Jonah and Nineveh","summary":"Jonah runs from God's call, is swallowed by a great fish, preaches to Nineveh and is angry when God shows mercy.","ref":"JON 1-4","refLabel":"Jonah 1–4","key":"JON 4:11","keyLabel":"Jonah 4:11","also":[{"ref":"2KI 14:25","label":"2 Kings 14:25"},{"ref":"MAT 12:40-41","label":"Matthew 12:40–41"}],"timeMap":{"id":"jonah","name":"Jonah"},"labs":[]},"jonah-flees":{"id":"jonah-flees","level":4,"parent":"jonah-and-nineveh","children":[],"era":"divided","color":"#4a6aa5","title":"Jonah runs away","summary":"Told to go to Nineveh, Jonah sails for Tarshish; in a great storm the sailors throw him into the sea.","ref":"JON 1:1-16","refLabel":"Jonah 1:1–16","key":"JON 1:3","keyLabel":"Jonah 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at the seventh, loud voices say the kingdom of the world has become the Lord's.","ref":"REV 8:1-11:19","refLabel":"Revelation 8:1 – 11:19","key":"REV 11:15","keyLabel":"Revelation 11:15","also":[],"labs":[]},"seven-bowls":{"id":"seven-bowls","level":4,"parent":"seals-trumpets-bowls","children":[],"era":"consummation","color":"#b08a2e","title":"The seven bowls","summary":"The victors sing the song of Moses and the Lamb, and the last bowls of God's wrath are poured out.","ref":"REV 15:1-16:21","refLabel":"Revelation 15:1 – 16:21","key":"REV 15:3-4","keyLabel":"Revelation 15:3–4","also":[],"labs":[]},"woman-dragon-beasts":{"id":"woman-dragon-beasts","level":3,"parent":"consummation","children":["woman-and-dragon","two-beasts","lamb-on-mount-zion"],"era":"consummation","color":"#b08a2e","title":"The woman, the dragon and the beasts","summary":"A dragon wars against a woman and her child and against the saints, but they overcome by the blood of the Lamb.","ref":"REV 12-14","refLabel":"Revelation 12–14","key":"REV 12:11","keyLabel":"Revelation 12:11","also":[],"labs":[]},"woman-and-dragon":{"id":"woman-and-dragon","level":4,"parent":"woman-dragon-beasts","children":[],"era":"consummation","color":"#b08a2e","title":"The woman and the dragon","summary":"The dragon, that old serpent, seeks to devour the woman's child, is thrown down from heaven, and is overcome.","ref":"REV 12","refLabel":"Revelation 12","key":"REV 12:10-11","keyLabel":"Revelation 12:10–11","also":[],"labs":[]},"two-beasts":{"id":"two-beasts","level":4,"parent":"woman-dragon-beasts","children":[],"era":"consummation","color":"#b08a2e","title":"The two beasts","summary":"A beast from the sea and a beast from the earth demand worship and put a mark on those who follow them.","ref":"REV 13","refLabel":"Revelation 13","key":"REV 13:8","keyLabel":"Revelation 13:8","also":[],"labs":[]},"lamb-on-mount-zion":{"id":"lamb-on-mount-zion","level":4,"parent":"woman-dragon-beasts","children":[],"era":"consummation","color":"#b08a2e","title":"The Lamb on Mount Zion","summary":"The Lamb stands on Mount Zion with the redeemed, and angels proclaim the eternal gospel and the harvest.","ref":"REV 14","refLabel":"Revelation 14","key":"REV 14:6-7","keyLabel":"Revelation 14:6–7","also":[],"labs":[]},"babylon-falls-rider":{"id":"babylon-falls-rider","level":3,"parent":"consummation","children":["babylon-judged","marriage-supper-lamb","rider-white-horse"],"era":"consummation","color":"#b08a2e","title":"Babylon falls; the rider on the white horse","summary":"The great city Babylon is judged, heaven rejoices at the Lamb's wedding, and the Word of God rides out to victory.","ref":"REV 17-19","refLabel":"Revelation 17–19","key":"REV 19:11","keyLabel":"Revelation 19:11","also":[],"labs":[]},"babylon-judged":{"id":"babylon-judged","level":4,"parent":"babylon-falls-rider","children":[],"era":"consummation","color":"#b08a2e","title":"Fallen is Babylon","summary":"The great prostitute Babylon, drunk with the blood of the saints, falls, and the merchants mourn.","ref":"REV 17:1-18:24","refLabel":"Revelation 17:1 – 18:24","key":"REV 18:2","keyLabel":"Revelation 18:2","also":[],"labs":[]},"marriage-supper-lamb":{"id":"marriage-supper-lamb","level":4,"parent":"babylon-falls-rider","children":[],"era":"consummation","color":"#b08a2e","title":"The marriage of the Lamb","summary":"A great multitude shouts Hallelujah, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and his bride is ready.","ref":"REV 19:1-10","refLabel":"Revelation 19:1–10","key":"REV 19:6-7","keyLabel":"Revelation 19:6–7","also":[],"labs":[]},"rider-white-horse":{"id":"rider-white-horse","level":4,"parent":"babylon-falls-rider","children":[],"era":"consummation","color":"#b08a2e","title":"The rider on the white horse","summary":"Heaven opens and the rider called Faithful and True, the Word of God, King of kings, defeats the beast.","ref":"REV 19:11-21","refLabel":"Revelation 19:11–21","key":"REV 19:11-13","keyLabel":"Revelation 19:11–13","also":[{"ref":"REV 19:16","label":"Revelation 19:16"}],"labs":[]},"thousand-years-judgment":{"id":"thousand-years-judgment","level":3,"parent":"consummation","children":["satan-bound-thousand-years","satan-final-defeat","great-white-throne"],"era":"consummation","color":"#b08a2e","title":"The thousand years and the final judgment","summary":"Satan is bound and finally destroyed, and the dead are judged before the great white throne.","ref":"REV 20","refLabel":"Revelation 20","key":"REV 20:12","keyLabel":"Revelation 20:12","also":[],"labs":[]},"satan-bound-thousand-years":{"id":"satan-bound-thousand-years","level":4,"parent":"thousand-years-judgment","children":[],"era":"consummation","color":"#b08a2e","title":"The thousand years","summary":"Satan is bound for a thousand years, and those faithful to Jesus reign with Christ.","ref":"REV 20:1-6","refLabel":"Revelation 20:1–6","key":"REV 20:6","keyLabel":"Revelation 20:6","also":[],"labs":[]},"satan-final-defeat":{"id":"satan-final-defeat","level":4,"parent":"thousand-years-judgment","children":[],"era":"consummation","color":"#b08a2e","title":"The devil's end","summary":"Released, Satan gathers the nations for battle; 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Even so, come, Lord Jesus.'","ref":"REV 22:6-21","refLabel":"Revelation 22:6–21","key":"REV 22:20","keyLabel":"Revelation 22:20","also":[],"labs":[]}}}}