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• 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.

• Bezalel and OholiabPeople

  Bezalel and Oholiab are two craftsmen in the Book of Exodus who received wisdom and skill through the Spirit of God and made the wilderness tabernacle and its furnishings. Bezalel was of the tribe of Judah, and Oholiab was of the tribe of Dan.

• Hellenistic JewsBible

  The Hellenistic Jews were a group mentioned in the book of Acts: Jews whose primary language was Greek, generally those who had lived outside Palestine before coming to Jerusalem. They were found both within and outside the early church.

• New JerusalemBible

  The New Jerusalem is the holy city in the Book of Revelation that comes down out of heaven at the end of the age and in which God dwells with his people forever. It is portrayed as the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophets' hope for a restored Jerusalem.

• GabrielBible

  Gabriel is an angel of God named in the Book of Daniel and the Gospel of Luke. He explained the meaning of visions to Daniel and announced the births of sons to Zacharias and to Mary.

• Mount HorBible

  Mount Hor is a mountain in the Book of Numbers. Located on the border of Edom, it is where Aaron died and the place from which Israel set out just before the episode of the bronze serpent. A mountain of the same name also appears on the northern boundary of the Promised Land.

• TahpanhesBible

  Tahpanhes was a city on the eastern side of the Nile Delta in ancient Egypt. After the fall of Judah, Jeremiah and the remnant of Judah fled there to escape the Babylonians, as recorded in the book of Jeremiah.

• Bigthan and TereshPeople

  Bigthan and Teresh were two eunuchs of the Persian king Ahasuerus who appear in the Book of Esther. They plotted to kill the king but were executed after Mordecai exposed their conspiracy.

• ZorahBible

  Zorah was a town in the lowland of Judah that appears in the Book of Joshua in the territorial lists of both Judah and Dan. It was the hometown of Manoah, the father of Samson, and is a setting for both the Samson narrative and the account of the Danite migration.

• Genesis 50Bible

  Genesis 50 is the final chapter of the Book of Genesis. It recounts Jacob's funeral and burial in Canaan, Joseph's forgiveness of his brothers, who fear him after their father's death, and Joseph's final request and death.

• 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.

• Exodus 40Bible

  Exodus 40 is the final chapter of the Book of Exodus. In obedience to God's command, Moses sets up the tabernacle on the first day of the first month of the second year after the Exodus. The book closes as the cloud covers the tent of meeting and the glory of the LORD fills the tabernacle.

• Numbers 36Bible

  Numbers 36 is the final chapter of the Book of Numbers. When the heads of the families of the children of Gilead fear that the inheritance (land) granted to the daughters of Zelophehad might pass to another tribe, Moses, in accordance with the word of the LORD, rules that daughters who inherit must marry within the tribe of their fathers.

• Esther 10Bible

  Esther 10 is the final chapter of the Book of Esther, a brief conclusion describing the power of King Ahasuerus and how Mordecai the Jew, who rose to a position second only to the king, worked for the welfare and peace of his people.

• Psalm 109Bible

  Psalm 109 is a psalm in which a person accused without cause pleads with God not to remain silent, asking for judgment on his enemy and for his own deliverance. It is a classic example of the imprecatory psalms, and the Book of Acts applies verse 8 to Judas Iscariot.

• Proverbs 1Bible

  Proverbs 1 is the opening chapter of the Book of Proverbs. It states the book's title and purpose and introduces its theme: "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge." It continues with a father's warning against the enticements of wicked men and with Wisdom's warning as she cries out in the streets.

• Psalm 148Bible

  Psalm 148 is a hymn of praise that calls in turn upon the angels, the sun, moon, and stars of the heavens, and upon the seas, weather, mountains, animals, and people of the earth to praise the LORD. It is one of the "Hallelujah Psalms" (Psalms 146–150) that conclude the Book of Psalms.

• Psalm 150Bible

  Psalm 150 is the final psalm of the Book of Psalms. It calls everything that has breath to praise God in the sanctuary and in the heavens, with a variety of instruments and with dance, bringing the entire Psalter to its close.

• Ecclesiastes 1Bible

  Ecclesiastes 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Ecclesiastes. It declares the book's theme, "Vanity of vanities; all is vanity," and describes the endless cycles of nature and history and the limits of the pursuit of wisdom.

• Proverbs 31Bible

  Proverbs 31 is the final chapter of the Book of Proverbs. It contains the instruction King Lemuel's mother gave her son and a poem in praise of the "virtuous woman."