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• Joel 1Bible

  The first chapter of the Book of Joel describes a locust plague and drought that have devastated the land of Judah, calls the people and priests to lament, fast, and gather in solemn assembly, and proclaims that "the day of the LORD" is at hand.

• LotPeople

  Lot is the nephew of Abraham in the Book of Genesis. He lived in Sodom, was rescued when the city was destroyed, and is recorded as the ancestor of the Moabites and the Ammonites.

• RebekahPeople

  Rebekah is the wife of Isaac in the Book of Genesis and the mother of the twin brothers Esau and Jacob. A granddaughter of Nahor, Abraham's brother, she is the daughter of Bethuel and the sister of Laban.

• MilcahPeople

  Milcah is a woman in the Book of Genesis, the daughter of Haran and the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother. She was the mother of Bethuel and the grandmother of Rebekah, the wife of Isaac.

• KittimBible

  Kittim is a place name and an ethnic name found in the Old Testament. It is thought to have originally referred to the island of Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean, or to a port city there. It later came to be used more broadly for the coastlands and islands lying across the sea to the west.

• EzekielBible

  Ezekiel is the twenty-sixth book of the Old Testament and one of the Major Prophets. Its forty-eight chapters record the visions and prophecies received by Ezekiel, a prophet from a priestly family who ministered during the Babylonian exile.

• ZechariahBible

  Zechariah is the thirty-eighth book of the Old Testament. This prophetic book encourages the people of Judah who had returned from the Babylonian exile to rebuild the Temple, and it prophesies concerning the Messiah and the restoration of the kingdom of God.

• Jeremiah (Prophet)People

  Jeremiah was an Old Testament prophet who ministered from the final years of the Kingdom of Judah into the early period of the Babylonian exile. He warned of the destruction of Jerusalem, prophesied the "new covenant," and is known as "the weeping prophet."

• JephthahPeople

  Jephthah was a judge from Gilead in the Book of Judges. He is widely known for defeating the Ammonites and for losing his only daughter because of a rash vow.

• HosannaBible

  "Hosanna" is a transliteration of a Hebrew expression meaning "save now." It derives from Psalm 118, and the Gospels record it as the acclamation the crowds shouted when Jesus entered Jerusalem.

• Ben-hadadPeople

  Ben-hadad is the name of a king, or kings, of Aram (capital Damascus) in the Old Testament. The name means "son of Hadad," Hadad being the Aramean storm god, and it appears in accounts from the reigns of Asa, Ahab, and Joash. Scholars disagree on whether it refers to one king or to several.

• RezinPeople

  Rezin is generally regarded as the last king of Aram, whose capital was Damascus, in the late eighth century BC. He allied with Pekah, king of the northern kingdom of Israel, to attack Judah, but was killed by the Assyrians.

• TarshishBible

  Tarshish is an Old Testament place name for a distant land across the sea. Scripture portrays it as a center of trade in metals such as silver and tin, and it is best known as the destination to which Jonah tried to flee from God.

• BozrahBible

  Bozrah was a major city of Edom mentioned in the Old Testament. In the prophetic books it frequently appears as a symbol of the judgment that would fall on Edom, and it is widely identified with modern Buseirah in Jordan.

• Korah's RebellionBible

  Korah's rebellion is an event recorded in Numbers 16 in which Korah the Levite and Dathan and Abiram of the tribe of Reuben, together with 250 leaders, challenged the authority of Moses and Aaron and were judged.

• BlasphemyBible

  Blasphemy is the dishonoring of God's name and majesty by word or deed. The Old Testament law punished it with death, and in the Gospels Jesus is accused of this offense.

• Cherethites and PelethitesBible

  The Cherethites and Pelethites were the king's personal troops during the reign of King David, commanded by Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. They are commonly understood to have been a bodyguard made up of foreign mercenaries.

• AmittaiPeople

  Amittai was the father of the prophet Jonah. He is mentioned by name only twice in the Old Testament, in 2 Kings 14:25 and Jonah 1:1.

• MahalathPeople

  Mahalath is the name of two women in the Old Testament. It most often refers to the wife of Rehoboam, king of Judah, who was a granddaughter of David (2 Chronicles 11:18). A second woman of the same name was a daughter of Ishmael who became the wife of Esau (Genesis 28:9).

• Proverbs 30:5–6Bible Verses

  A passage among the sayings of Agur that declares the word of God pure and trustworthy and warns against adding anything to it. It is frequently cited in discussions of the sufficiency and inerrancy of Scripture and of revelation outside Scripture.