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• Pashur (son of Malchiah)People

  Pashur son of Malchiah was a high official of Judah during the reign of King Zedekiah. At the king's request he asked Jeremiah to pray for the city, and he later took part in having Jeremiah confined in a cistern.

• GogPeople

  Gog is the figure prophesied in Ezekiel 38–39 as the leader of an army that comes from the north against Israel in the last days. In Revelation 20, "Gog and Magog" serves as a name for the nations that oppose God.

• ShaashgazPeople

  Shaashgaz was a eunuch of the Persian king Ahasuerus in the Book of Esther. He had charge of the "second house of the women," where the women who had spent a night with the king resided.

• Manasseh (son of Joseph)People

  Manasseh was the firstborn son of Joseph, born in Egypt. Adopted by Jacob as his own son, he became the ancestor of one of the tribes of Israel. He is distinct from Manasseh, king of Judah.

• NobBible

  Nob was a town in the territory of Benjamin where priests lived during the reign of Saul. There David received the showbread and the sword of Goliath, and there the priests were massacred at Saul's command.

• JaelPeople

  Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, appears in Judges 4–5. She killed Sisera, the Canaanite commander who was fighting against Israel, in her tent, and the Song of Deborah praises her as one who shall be "blessed above women."

• HilkiahPeople

  Hilkiah is the name of several people in the Old Testament. The best known is the high priest who found the Book of the Law in the temple during the reign of King Josiah of Judah. The priest of Anathoth who was the father of the prophet Jeremiah bore the same name.

• SibbechaiPeople

  Sibbechai was a warrior in the time of King David. The Bible records that he killed a descendant of the giants in battle against the Philistines and that he commanded the division of David's army that served in the eighth month.

• ShebnaPeople

  Shebna was a high-ranking official under King Hezekiah of Judah who served as scribe in the delegation that negotiated with the Assyrian commander Rabshakeh. Isaiah rebuked him for hewing out a tomb for himself on high and prophesied that his office would pass to Eliakim.

• 1 Samuel 28Bible

  1 Samuel 28 is the chapter in which Saul, receiving no answer from God before his decisive battle with the Philistines, seeks out the medium of Endor and asks her to bring up the dead Samuel, who foretells the deaths of Saul and his sons.

• AmariahPeople

  Amariah was the chief priest during the reign of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah. When Jehoshaphat established a judicial system in Jerusalem, he placed Amariah over "all matters of the LORD" (2 Chronicles 19:11).

• Hosea (Prophet)People

  Hosea was a prophet active in the northern kingdom of Israel in the eighth century BC and is the central figure of the biblical Book of Hosea. The account of his marriage to his unfaithful wife Gomer, whom he continued to love, is read as a symbol of the relationship between God and Israel.

• Proverbs 30Bible

  Proverbs 30 contains the words of Agur the son of Jakeh. It consists of questions about the Creator, a declaration of the purity of God's word, a prayer asking for neither poverty nor riches, and observational sayings grouped in the pattern of "three things, yea, four."

• Azariah (High Priest)People

  Azariah was high priest during the reign of Uzziah, king of Judah. When Uzziah entered the temple to burn incense himself, Azariah followed him in with eighty priests and withstood him. The account appears in 2 Chronicles 26.

• BaruchPeople

  Baruch was the scribe of the prophet Jeremiah in the final years of the southern kingdom of Judah. He wrote on a scroll the prophecies Jeremiah dictated and read them aloud to the people in the temple.

• EglonPeople

  Eglon was a king of Moab who ruled over Israel for eighteen years during the period of the judges. He was killed by Ehud the Benjamite, as recorded in Judges 3.

• ChaldeaBible

  Chaldea is a biblical term for a region in southern Mesopotamia and for the people who lived there. Scripture uses it for Abraham's homeland, "Ur of the Chaldees"; for the Babylonian Empire that destroyed Judah; and for a class of learned men and astrologers in the book of Daniel.

• Gopher WoodBible

  Gopher wood is the timber God instructed Noah to use in building the ark in Genesis 6:14. Because the word appears only once in the Bible, the kind of tree it refers to is uncertain.

• ConaniahPeople

  Conaniah was the chief Levite who took charge of the offerings, tithes, and dedicated things gathered in the temple storerooms during the reign of King Hezekiah of Judah. He appears in 2 Chronicles 31:12–13.

• Proverbs 1:7Bible Verses

  Proverbs 1:7 declares that the fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, stating the theme of the entire Book of Proverbs. Christian schools and educational institutions widely use it as a motto, and it is often cited in discussions of the relationship between faith and learning.