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• Moon Joon-kyungPeople

  Moon Joon-kyung (1891–1950) was a woman evangelist of the Holiness Church who ministered in the island region of Sinan, South Jeolla Province, Korea. Killed on the island of Jeungdo during the Korean War, she is honored as a martyr and is known as "the mother of island missions."

• Matthew 22Bible

  Matthew 22 contains the parable of the wedding feast; the questions put to Jesus by the Pharisees, the Herodians, the Sadducees, and a lawyer concerning tribute, the resurrection, and the great commandment; and Jesus' counter-question about the son of David.

• 1 Chronicles 26Bible

  1 Chronicles 26 continues the record of the duties assigned to the Levites in the time of David. It lists the divisions of the temple gatekeepers and the assignment of gates by lot, the men in charge of the treasuries and the dedicated things, and the officers and judges responsible for affairs outside the temple.

• 2 Samuel 3Bible

  2 Samuel 3 recounts how Abner, the power behind the house of Saul, attempts to go over to David but is murdered by Joab, and how David mourns him and publicly declares his own innocence.

• Moon Dong-hwanPeople

  Moon Dong-hwan (1921–2019) was a minister of the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea and a theologian of Christian education. He taught at Hankuk Theological Seminary, was imprisoned for his role in the democracy movement, and served as a member of the 13th National Assembly.

• Baal-hazorBible

  Baal-hazor is the place where Absalom, son of David, held a sheep-shearing feast and had his half-brother Amnon killed. It is described in 2 Samuel 13:23 as "beside Ephraim."

• Yu Gwan-sunPeople

  Yu Gwan-sun (1902–1920) was a Korean independence activist raised in a Methodist family. She was at the forefront of the independence demonstration at the Aunae marketplace in Cheonan on April 1, 1919, was arrested, and died while imprisoned at Seodaemun Prison.

• Consecration of the PriestsBible

  The consecration of the priests was the seven-day ceremony in which Moses installed Aaron and his sons as priests of Israel. The command for it is recorded in Exodus 29, and its performance in Leviticus 8.

• Redemption of the FirstbornBible

  The redemption of the firstborn is a provision of the Mosaic Law by which the firstborn son in Israel was set apart as belonging to God and then redeemed by a payment of five shekels of silver. The institution served as a reminder that God spared Israel's firstborn sons at the time of the Exodus.

• Mary the Mother of JamesPeople

  One of the women who followed Jesus from Galilee and ministered to him, she witnessed his crucifixion and burial and went to the empty tomb on the morning of the resurrection.

• HielPeople

  Hiel was a man of Bethel who rebuilt Jericho during the reign of King Ahab of the northern kingdom of Israel. He appears only once, in 1 Kings 16:34, which records that he lost his firstborn and youngest sons in the course of building the city.

• Genesis 49Bible

  Genesis 49 is the chapter in which Jacob, shortly before his death, calls his twelve sons together, speaks in poetic form about the future of each, asks to be buried in the cave of Machpelah, and then dies.

• Mount GilboaBible

  Mount Gilboa is a mountain ridge southeast of the Jezreel Valley. The Bible records it as the place where King Saul and his sons, including Jonathan, died fighting the Philistines.

• Numbers 3Bible

  Numbers 3 records the genealogy of Aaron's sons and the tribe of Levi. It sets apart the Levites as those given to God in place of Israel's firstborn, assigns each Levite family its camp position and tabernacle duties, and then numbers both the Levites and the firstborn, requiring a redemption price for the difference.

• 1 Samuel 31Bible

  The final chapter of 1 Samuel recounts how Saul and three of his sons die after their defeat by the Philistines at Mount Gilboa, and how the men of Jabesh-gilead recover and bury their bodies.

• 1 Chronicles 10Bible

  1 Chronicles 10 recounts the deaths of Saul and his three sons at the hands of the Philistines in the battle on Mount Gilboa and the burial of their bodies by the men of Jabesh-gilead. It assesses the reason for Saul's death and concludes that the kingdom was turned over to David.

• NeriahPeople

  Neriah is a figure in the Old Testament Book of Jeremiah. He was the son of Maaseiah and the father of Baruch, Jeremiah's scribe, and of Seraiah, an official of King Zedekiah.

• JacobPeople

  Jacob is a patriarch of the Israelite people in the Book of Genesis, the son of Isaac and the younger twin brother of Esau. God gave him the new name "Israel," and his twelve sons became the ancestors of the twelve tribes of Israel.

• 1 Chronicles 17Bible

  1 Chronicles 17 records how David resolved to build a temple and how God, speaking through the prophet Nathan, told him that not David but one of his sons would build the house, and promised that David's throne would be established forever. David responds to this promise with a prayer of thanksgiving.

• JoktanPeople

  Joktan was a son of Eber, a descendant of Shem, and the younger brother of Peleg. He appears with his thirteen sons in the Table of Nations in Genesis 10 and is commonly regarded as the ancestor of various tribes of southern Arabia.