Acts 26:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

a promise that our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly worship day and night. It is for this hope, Your Excellency, that I am accused by Jews!

Cross References

Ezra 6:17

They offered at the dedication of this house of God one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and as a sin offering for all Israel, twelve male goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.

Ezra 8:35

At that time those who had come from captivity, the returned exiles, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel: twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and as a sin offering twelve male goats; all this was a burnt offering to the Lord.

Psalm 135:2

you who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God.

Matthew 19:28

Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man is seated on the throne of his glory, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Luke 2:25

Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon; this man was righteous and devout, looking forward to the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit rested on him.

Luke 22:30

so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Acts 20:31

Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to warn everyone with tears.

Acts 24:15

I have a hope in God—a hope that they themselves also accept—that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.

Acts 26:2

“I consider myself fortunate that it is before you, King Agrippa, I am to make my defense today against all the accusations of the Jews,

Acts 26:3

because you are especially familiar with all the customs and controversies of the Jews; therefore I beg of you to listen to me patiently.

Acts 28:20

For this reason therefore I asked to see you and speak with you, since it is for the sake of the hope of Israel that I am bound with this chain.”

Philippians 3:11

if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

1 Thessalonians 3:10

Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you face to face and restore whatever is lacking in your faith.

1 Timothy 5:5

The real widow, left alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day,

James 1:1

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the dispersion: Greetings.