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• Alabaster BoxBible

  An alabaster box is a small stone vessel for holding perfumed ointment. It is best known from the Gospel accounts of a woman who poured costly ointment from an alabaster box on Jesus.

• Queen MotherBible

  The queen mother is a biblical term for a woman who, as the mother of the king, held an official position at the royal court. It is best known from the account of King Asa of Judah removing his mother Maachah from this position.

• OmerBible

  The omer is an ancient Israelite dry measure for grain mentioned in Exodus 16. It is best known from the account of the manna in the wilderness, which each person was to gather at the rate of one omer per day. The text defines the omer as one-tenth of an ephah.

• LeptonBible

  The lepton was the smallest denomination of coin used in Judea in the New Testament period. In the Bible it is best known from the "two mites" that a poor widow put into the Temple treasury.

• Daniel 7Bible

  The first chapter of the visions in the second half of the Book of Daniel. It records the vision of four beasts rising from the sea, the little horn, the judgment of the Ancient of Days, and one like the Son of Man receiving an everlasting kingdom, together with the vision's interpretation.

• EliabPeople

  Eliab was the firstborn son of Jesse of Bethlehem and the eldest brother of David. He is best known from the account in which Samuel, judging by his appearance, assumed he was the one chosen to be king, but God rejected him, declaring that the LORD "looketh on the heart."

• GleaningBible

  Gleaning was an Old Testament legal institution requiring that fallen ears of grain and leftover fruit be left at harvest for the poor and the stranger to gather. It is best known from the Book of Ruth, where Ruth gleans in the field of Boaz.

• PearlBible

  A pearl is a round gem formed inside a mollusk. In the Bible it denotes something of great value, and it is best known from the New Testament parable of the pearl of great price and from the pearly gates of the New Jerusalem.

• Daniel 8Bible

  Daniel 8 records Daniel's vision of a ram and a male goat in the third year of King Belshazzar, together with its interpretation by the angel Gabriel. The chapter features a "little horn" that defiles the sanctuary and the "two thousand and three hundred days."

• SharonBible

  Sharon is a coastal plain along the Mediterranean south of Mount Carmel. In the Old Testament it appears as pastureland and as a symbol of fertility and beauty, and it is best known from the phrase "the rose of Sharon" in Song of Solomon 2:1.

• Pool of SiloamBible

  The Pool of Siloam was a reservoir at the southern end of the City of David in Jerusalem. In John 9, Jesus sent a man who had been blind from birth to wash there.

• DariusPeople

  Darius is the name of several kings of the Persian period mentioned in the Bible. The best known are Darius king of Persia, who permitted the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem, and Darius the Mede, who had Daniel cast into the lions' den.

• TaxesBible

  Taxes are money or goods collected from the people by a state or by the temple. Scripture mentions taxes under Egypt, the Israelite monarchy, Persia, and Rome, as well as the temple tax. The subject is best known through the saying "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's."

• MizpahBible

  Mizpah is an Old Testament place name meaning "watchtower" or "lookout." Several places bore this name. The best known is Mizpah in the territory of Benjamin, where Samuel assembled Israel for repentance and prayer.

• Ezekiel's Temple VisionBible

  Ezekiel's temple vision, recorded in Ezekiel 40–48, is the vision in which Ezekiel, a prophet of the Babylonian exile, saw a restored temple and land. It is best known for its account of a river that flows out from the temple and brings life to a dead sea.

• Broom TreeBible

  The broom tree (Hebrew *rotem*) is a leguminous shrub that grows in arid regions such as the Sinai wilderness and the Negev. In the Bible it is best known as the place where Elijah, fleeing from Jezebel, asked to die and was then given food by an angel.

• Mount CarmelBible

  Mount Carmel is a mountain range in northern Israel that extends inland toward the southeast from the Mediterranean coast. It is best known as the place where Elijah confronted the prophets of Baal and prayed for rain (1 Kings 18).

• NardBible

  Nard is a precious aromatic ointment made from the roots of a plant that grows in the Himalayan region. In the Bible it appears in the Song of Solomon and the Gospels. It is best known as the "pure nard" (KJV "spikenard") that a woman poured on Jesus.

• Beth-horonBible

  Beth-horon was a town on the route descending from the hill country northwest of Jerusalem to the plain to the west. It consisted of two sites, Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon, and is best known as the place where Joshua defeated the allied Canaanite forces.

• Daniel 7:1-8Bible Verses

  In this passage Daniel sees in a dream four beasts rising out of the sea and a little horn springing up among ten horns. Because interpreters disagree about which kingdoms the four beasts represent and who the little horn is, the passage is frequently cited in discussions of eschatology.