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• JozadakPeople

  Jozadak was the son of Seraiah, the high priest in Jerusalem just before the Babylonian exile. He was carried into captivity when Judah fell, and Scripture records him as the father of Jeshua (Joshua), who became high priest after the return from exile.

• ElimelechPeople

  Elimelech is a man of Bethlehem in Judah who appears in the Book of Ruth. The husband of Naomi, he moved with his family to Moab to escape a famine and died there.

• Jeremiah 35Bible

  Jeremiah 35 recounts how, in the days of King Jehoiakim, Jeremiah offered wine to the Rechabites, who refused it in obedience to the command of their ancestor Jonadab. Their faithfulness becomes the basis for rebuking Judah for not listening to the word of God.

• Ezra (Scribe)People

  Ezra was a priest and scribe of Judah in the Persian period who returned from Babylon to Jerusalem and taught the law of Moses. He appears in Ezra 7–10, Nehemiah 8, and elsewhere.

• HebronBible

  Hebron is an ancient city in the hill country of Judah. Abraham lived there, and it is the site of the cave of Machpelah, where the patriarchs were buried. It is also where David first became king.

• Daniel 1Bible

  The first chapter of the Book of Daniel. It tells how Daniel and his three friends, taken captive to Babylon, refused the king's food, were tested for ten days on a diet of vegetables, and, through the wisdom God gave them, came to stand before King Nebuchadnezzar.

• Lost Ten TribesHistory

  The Lost Ten Tribes are the ten northern tribes of Israel that disappeared from the historical record after being carried into exile when the northern Kingdom of Israel fell to Assyria in the eighth century BC. Various traditions and claims about their whereabouts arose in later centuries.

• Jeremiah 3Bible

  Jeremiah 3 is the third chapter of the Book of Jeremiah. It rebukes idolatrous Israel and Judah by likening them to a wife who has betrayed her husband, yet it also calls them to repentance and restoration with the words "Return, ye backsliding children."

• 2 Samuel 19Bible

  2 Samuel 19 recounts how David, after Absalom's death, composes himself in his grief and returns to Jerusalem. Along the way he meets Shimei, Mephibosheth, and Barzillai in turn, and the chapter closes with Judah and Israel quarreling over their part in bringing the king back.

• 2 Chronicles 10Bible

  2 Chronicles 10 recounts how, after Solomon's death, Rehoboam rejected the people's request at Shechem to lighten their burden, and the northern tribes broke away from the house of David.

• 2 Samuel 20Bible

  2 Samuel 20 recounts the revolt of Sheba, a Benjamite, and its suppression. Joab kills Amasa and takes command of the army, and a wise woman of Abel of Beth-maacah saves her city. The chapter closes with a list of David's officials.

• 2 Samuel 6Bible

  This chapter recounts how David brings the ark of God (the Ark of the Covenant) to the City of David. The procession halts when Uzzah dies, and the ark rests at the house of Obed-edom before being brought up with rejoicing. Michal despises David for dancing.

• Judas MaccabeusPeople

  Judas Maccabeus was the leader of the Jewish revolt against the Seleucid king Antiochus IV in the second century BC. He recaptured the Temple in Jerusalem and rededicated it.

• Isaiah 6Bible

  Isaiah 6 recounts Isaiah's call: in the year King Uzziah died, Isaiah sees the Lord seated on a throne in the temple, attended by seraphim. He is cleansed and then sent forth as a prophet.

• SharezerPeople

  Sharezer is a son of the Assyrian king Sennacherib mentioned in the Old Testament. With his brother Adrammelech, he killed his father with the sword in a temple and then fled to the land of Ararat.

• 2 Kings 21Bible

  2 Kings 21 recounts the fifty-five-year reign of Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, who revived idolatry in Judah, and the judgment announced against Jerusalem and Judah. It also recounts the reign of his son Amon, who was killed by his servants after two years.

• 2 SamuelBible

  Second Samuel is a historical book of the Old Testament that records the period after Saul's death, when David became king over Judah and then over all Israel. It has twenty-four chapters.

• AsahelPeople

  Asahel was a son of Zeruiah, David's sister, and a brother of Joab and Abishai. A warrior swift of foot, he was killed by Abner's spear while pursuing him at the battle of Gibeon, an event that later led Joab to kill Abner.

• Books of the MaccabeesBible

  The Books of the Maccabees are writings that record the Jewish resistance to persecution under the Seleucid dynasty in the second century BC and the martyrdoms that accompanied it. The Catholic and Orthodox Churches accept them as canonical (deuterocanonical), while Protestants classify them as Apocrypha.

• Zephaniah 3:17Bible Verses

  Zephaniah 3:17 declares that God, present in the midst of restored Jerusalem, rejoices and sings over His people. It is frequently cited as a word of comfort that reveals God's joy and love.