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When the men of Judah came to the place that overlooks the desert and looked toward the vast army, they saw only dead bodies lying on the ground; no one had escaped. 25 So Jehoshaphat and his men went to carry off their plunder, and they found among them a great amount of equipment and clothing [ d] and also articles of value—more than they could take away. There was so much plunder that it took three days to collect it. 26 On the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Berakah, where they praised the Lord. This is why it is called the Valley of Berakah [ e] to this day. Books included in the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Slavonic Bibles are: Tobit, Judith, Greek Additions to Esther, the Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach (or Ecclesiasticus), Baruch, the Letter of Jeremiah (also called the Baruch Chapter 6), the Greek Additions to Daniel, along with 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees. [143] The other events of Jehoshaphat’s reign, from beginning to end, are written in the annals of Jehu ( AM) son of Hanani, which are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel. With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.” ( BC) 41 Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number ( BD) that day. The Fellowship of the Believers
Shīr Hashshīrīm ( Song of Songs) or (Song of Solomon) שִׁיר הַשִׁירִים ( Passover) is poetry about love and sex. After this, the Moabites ( A) and Ammonites with some of the Meunites [ a] ( B) came to wage war against Jehoshaphat. Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth [ a] and no plant had yet sprung up, ( I) for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth ( J) and there was no one to work the ground, 6 but streams [ b] came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. 7 Then the Lord God formed ( K) a man [ c] ( L) from the dust ( M) of the ground ( N) and breathed into his nostrils the breath ( O) of life, ( P) and the man became a living being. ( Q) The Old Testament has been important to the life of the Christian church from its earliest days. Bible scholar N.T. Wright says "Jesus himself was profoundly shaped by the scriptures." [139] Wright adds that the earliest Christians searched those same Hebrew scriptures in their effort to understand the earthly life of Jesus. They regarded the "holy writings" of the Israelites as necessary and instructive for the Christian, as seen from Paul's words to Timothy (2 Timothy 3:15), as pointing to the Messiah, and as having reached a climactic fulfillment in Jesus generating the " new covenant" prophesied by Jeremiah. [140]The sheer diversity of literature in the Bible is one of the secrets of its continuing popularity through the centuries. There is something for all moods and many different cultures. Its message is not buried in religious jargon only accessible to either believers or scholars, but reflects the issues that people struggle with in daily life. Despite their different emphases, all its authors shared the conviction that this world and its affairs are not just a haphazard sequence of random coincidences, but are the forum of God's activity - a God who (unlike the God of the philosophers) is not remote or unknowable, but a personal being who can be known by ordinary people. Rūth ( Book of Ruth) רוּת ( Shābhû‘ôth) tells of the Moabite woman Ruth, who decides to follow the God of the Israelites, and remains loyal to her mother-in-law, who is then rewarded.
The Hebrew names of the books are derived from the first words in the respective texts. The Torah consists of the following five books: Chronicles 20:3 : 1Sa 7:6; Ezr 8:23; Ne 1:4; Est 4:16; Isa 58:6; Jer 36:9; Da 9:3; Joel 1:14; 2:15; Jnh 3:5, 7 Send me, therefore, a man skilled to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, and in purple, crimson and blue yarn, and experienced in the art of engraving, to work in Judah and Jerusalem with my skilled workers, ( Q) whom my father David provided.The Prophets is the largest section of the Hebrew Bible, and has two parts ('former prophets' and 'latter prophets'). Two of them (Daniel and Ezra) are the only books in the Tanakh with significant portions in Aramaic.
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