A-Z: Literary titles from the Bible
- 'All is vanity, saith the preacher'
- A bruised reed He shall not break
- A curse on Herod
- A handful of dust
- A hymn to Christ
- A Laodicean
- A little East of Jordan
- A man who had fallen among thieves
- A small fig tree
- A song for Simeon
- A word made flesh is seldom
- Aaron
- Aaron's Rod
- Abel's Blood
- Abraham
- Abraham to kill him
- Absalom
- Absalom and Achitophel
- Absalom, Absalom!
- According to the Mighty Working
- Adam's curse
- Adam's dream
- Advent (Used in the title of a number of poems)
- After the Fall
- After this, the judgement
- Agape
- All my sons
- Altar, The
- And death shall have no dominion
- And he answered them nothing
- And there was a great calm
- Angry Samson
- Annunciation, The
- Anti-Christ, or the Reunion of Christendom
- Armageddon
- As Adam early in the morning
- Ascension
- Ascension Day 1964
- Ascension-day
- At Calvary near the Ancre
- At the manger Mary sings
- Babel
- Babel Tower
- Back to Methuselah
- Ballad of the Bread Man
- Battle of Gibeon, The
- Beauty of Job's daughters, The
- Bedridden peasant to the unknown God, The
- Being breadlike
- Belshazzar had a letter
A-Z: Literary titles from the Bible: A curse on Herod
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King Herod ordered that all of the children under two in Bethlehem were killed. There was great weeping and mourningHerod the Great was born c.73BCE, and became the King of Judea in 42BCE. He was King when Jesus was born, and upon hearing of the birth of the new 'king of the Jews', ordered the slaughter of all male children under two years old in Bethlehem.
A town south of Jerusalem. The birthplace of David and Jesus, over which the star hovered at the Nativity.
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