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• NethaniahPeople

  Nethaniah was the son of Elishama, a member of the royal family in the final years of the kingdom of Judah. He was the father of Ishmael, who assassinated Gedaliah, the governor appointed by Babylon. Scripture mentions him only in connection with his son's name.

• RabshakehPeople

  Rabshakeh was a high-ranking official whom Sennacherib, king of Assyria, sent to Hezekiah, king of Judah. He is known for a speech before the walls of Jerusalem in which he demanded that the people of Judah surrender and mocked the LORD.

• Psalm 18Bible

  Psalm 18 is a song of David giving thanks that God delivered him from his enemies and from the hand of Saul. Calling God his rock, fortress, and shield, it praises the salvation and victory God gave the king.

• SodomBible

  Sodom is a city of the plain of the Jordan mentioned in Genesis. It was the home of Lot, and Scripture records that it was destroyed together with Gomorrah by brimstone and fire sent by God because of its wickedness. Throughout the Bible it serves as an example of God's judgment.

• GomorrahBible

  Gomorrah was a city in the plain of the Jordan mentioned in the Old Testament book of Genesis. It was destroyed by God's judgment together with Sodom, and in Scripture its name serves as a symbol of sin and judgment.

• IsshiahPeople

  Isshiah was a Levite recorded as the head (chief) among the sons of Rehabiah, the grandson of Moses. His name appears only once, in 1 Chronicles 24:21.

• ShadrachPeople

  Shadrach, originally named Hananiah, is a man of Judah in the Book of Daniel. One of Daniel's three friends, he refused with Meshach and Abednego to bow down to a golden image. The three were cast into a fiery furnace and came out alive.

• George MacDonaldPeople

  George MacDonald (1824–1905) was a Scottish Congregationalist minister and author. His works, including Phantastes and The Princess and the Goblin, have earned him recognition as a pioneer of modern fantasy literature, and he is known as the writer whom C. S. Lewis regarded as his master.

• MaochPeople

  Maoch is a figure named only once in Scripture, in 1 Samuel 27:2, as the father of Achish, the king of Gath with whom David took refuge while fleeing from Saul.

• BitumenBible

  Bitumen is a black, sticky, naturally occurring asphalt substance found in the earth. In the Bible it served as a waterproofing agent and adhesive for Noah's ark, the Tower of Babel, and the ark of bulrushes in which the infant Moses was placed.

• StadionBible

  The stadion is a Greek unit of distance found in the New Testament, measuring about 185 meters. In Revelation it is used to give the dimensions of the New Jerusalem.

• 2 Kings 5Bible

  2 Kings 5 tells how Naaman, commander of the army of Aram, is healed of leprosy after washing seven times in the Jordan River as Elisha instructed. It continues with the account of Gehazi, who secretly accepts gifts and is struck with leprosy.

• Valley of SorekBible

  The Valley of Sorek is the valley named in Judges 16:4 as the home of Delilah, the woman Samson loved. It runs from the hill country of Judah down to the coastal plain along the Mediterranean and lay in the border region between Israel and the Philistines.

• Proverbs 20Bible

  Proverbs 20 is a chapter within the "Proverbs of Solomon" collection (10:1–22:16). Its thirty short sayings address wine, laziness, honest scales, guarded speech, the rule of kings, and the prohibition of personal revenge.

• Seti IPeople

  Seti I was the second pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, reigning in the thirteenth century BC. He was the father of Ramesses II. His name appears in discussions about the identity of the "Pharaoh" in the Book of Exodus.

• Song of Solomon 1Bible

  Song of Solomon 1 is the first chapter of the Song of Solomon. Its seventeen verses open with a superscription and continue with songs in which a woman and her beloved express their longing for and praise of each other.

• Jesus Called JustusPeople

  Jesus called Justus was a Jewish coworker of Paul whom the apostle names in the closing greetings of the Epistle to the Colossians. He appears only once in the Bible, in Colossians 4:11.

• GreeceBible

  Greece is a biblical place name referring to the land of present-day Greece and its people. The Old Testament, in books such as Daniel, uses it for a kingdom yet to arise. The New Testament uses it for a region where Paul preached the gospel and as a name representing the Gentiles.

• Charles SimeonPeople

  Charles Simeon (1759–1836) was an evangelical priest of the Church of England. He ministered at Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge, for fifty-four years, trained preachers, and took part in founding the Church Missionary Society (CMS).

• Jonah 4:2Bible Verses

  In this verse Jonah, angered that Nineveh has been spared, tells God why he had fled. The verse is frequently discussed for its irony, since Jonah turns the confession of God's grace from Exodus 34 into grounds for complaint, and for its statement that God "repentest thee of the evil."