200 passages · Salvation
God tells Noah to build an ark of specified size and design, promises a covenant, and instructs him to bring his family and pairs of animals with food aboard. Noah obeys.
God tells Noah to enter the ark with his family because he is righteous, with seven pairs of clean animals and birds and a pair of the unclean. Noah does as commanded.
Noah, his family, and the animals go into the ark two by two, as commanded, and after seven days the floodwaters come.
Noah sends out a raven and then a dove three times. The dove returns with an olive leaf and then does not return. Noah sees the ground dry and the earth fully dry by the second month.
The angels warn Lot to gather his family since the city will be destroyed. His sons-in-law don't take it seriously. The angels lead Lot's family out, and Lot asks to go to nearby Zoar.
Abraham binds Isaac and raises the knife, but the angel of the Lord stops him. Abraham sees a ram caught in a thicket, offers it instead, and names the place 'The Lord Will Provide'.
The LORD makes this month the first of the year. Each household is to keep a year-old lamb, slaughter it at twilight, put its blood on the doorframes, and eat it roasted in haste, so that judgment will pass over them.
Moses stretches out his hand and a strong east wind divides the sea so Israel goes through with walls of water on both sides. The Egyptians follow, and at morning watch the LORD throws them into confusion.
At daybreak Moses stretches out his hand again and the waters cover the whole Egyptian army. Israel sees the Egyptians dead on the shore, and the people fear the LORD and believe in him and Moses.
In song, Israel praises the LORD as strength, salvation, and warrior. They celebrate how he threw Pharaoh's horse and rider into the sea and how the enemy's boast ended.
Impatient on the detour around Edom, the people complain against God and Moses. God sends venomous snakes, and after they confess, He has Moses make a bronze snake on a pole so that anyone who looks at it lives.
The song promises that the LORD will have compassion on his servants when their strength is gone. He mocks the useless idols, declares there is no God besides him, and promises vengeance on his enemies, so the nations rejoice.
Moses closes by praising the God who rides the heavens to help Israel, whose everlasting arms carry them. He declares Israel blessed as a people saved by the LORD, who will drive out their enemies and live in security.
On the roof, Rahab tells the spies the people of the land are terrified because of what the LORD has done. She declares that the LORD is God and asks them to spare her family, and they agree.
Rahab lowers the spies down the wall and tells them to hide in the hills. They set conditions for the oath: a scarlet cord in her window and her family gathered in her house.
God recalls sending Moses and Aaron, bringing Israel out of Egypt, and saving them at the sea when the Egyptians pursued. The people cried out, and God put darkness between the two camps.
Israel serves the Baals and Asherahs and is handed to Cushan-rishathaim of Aram for eight years. When they cry out, the LORD raises up Othniel, who defeats the king by the Spirit, and the land has rest for forty years.
Ehud, a left-handed Benjamite, brings tribute to Eglon, then claims to have a secret message and stabs the king in his upper room. He locks the doors and slips away, while the servants wait, assuming the king is relieving himself.
Ehud escapes, sounds the ram's horn in Ephraim, and leads Israel to seize the Jordan fords and strike down about ten thousand Moabites. Moab is subdued and the land rests eighty years, and Shamgar is briefly mentioned for killing 600 Philistines with an oxgoad.
Gideon splits his three hundred men into three companies armed with horns, jars, and torches. At his signal they blow the horns, break the jars, and shout, and the LORD sets the Midianites against each other so they flee.
The Spirit of God rushes on Saul, who sends pieces of oxen throughout Israel to summon the army. The troops gather, promise rescue, and defeat the Ammonites the next morning.
Trusting that the LORD can save by many or few, Jonathan proposes a sign: if the Philistines invite them up, God has given them victory. They do, the two kill about twenty men, and panic spreads through the Philistine army.
David slings a stone into Goliath's forehead, and Goliath falls. David cuts off his head with Goliath's own sword, and the Philistines flee, pursued by Israel.
Saul and his men nearly catch David in the Wilderness of Maon, but a messenger reports a Philistine raid, so Saul turns back. David moves to En-gedi.
David sings that the LORD is his rock, fortress and deliverer. He recalls calling out from death's snares and being heard.
David describes God's coming with earthquake, fire, dark clouds and thunder to scatter the enemy. He says God reached down and drew him out of deep waters.
David thanks God for light in darkness, strength for battle, and success against his enemies. He says foreign peoples now submit to him.
Isaiah relays that the LORD has heard and mocks Sennacherib's arrogance. He promises that Assyria will not enter Jerusalem and that a remnant will survive, for the LORD's sake and David's.
The angel of the LORD strikes down 185,000 in the Assyrian camp overnight. Sennacherib returns to Nineveh, where his sons kill him while he worships.
The song ends with thanks for God's goodness and lasting love, and a prayer to gather and save Israel from the nations. It closes with a blessing, and the people answer Amen and Praise the Lord.