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• TargumBible

  A Targum is one of the ancient Jewish translations and paraphrases of the Hebrew Old Testament into Aramaic. The Targums are generally understood to have originated as oral explanations given when Scripture was read aloud in the synagogue.

• JabinPeople

  Jabin was king of Hazor, a city in northern Canaan. A king of Hazor by this name appears in both Joshua 11 and Judges 4; in Judges, Deborah and Barak defeat Sisera, the commander of his army.

• Haggai (Prophet)People

  Haggai was a prophet active after the return from the Babylonian exile, during the reign of the Persian king Darius. He urged the people to resume the stalled rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem. The Old Testament Book of Haggai bears his name.

• MithredathPeople

  Mithredath is a Persian personal name found in the Book of Ezra. Two individuals bear this name: the treasurer of King Cyrus, who handed over the temple vessels to Sheshbazzar, and a man who wrote to King Artaxerxes.

• LemuelPeople

  Lemuel is a king named in Proverbs 31 who passed on the instruction he received from his mother. He appears nowhere else in the Bible, and neither the nation he ruled nor the period in which he lived is known.

• Silk Letter of Hwang Sa-yeongHistory

  The Silk Letter of Hwang Sa-yeong is a secret letter that the Catholic believer Hwang Sa-yeong wrote on white silk during the Sinyu Persecution of 1801. It describes the course of the persecution and proposes remedies. It was intended for Bishop Gouvea in Beijing but was discovered before delivery, and its discovery intensified the suppression of Catholicism in Joseon Korea.

• 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.

• HephzibahPeople

  Hephzibah was the mother of Manasseh, king of Judah, and is mentioned by name only once, in 2 Kings 21:1. Her name is commonly interpreted to mean "my delight is in her."

• SiseraPeople

  Sisera was the commander of the army of Jabin, the Canaanite king who oppressed Israel during the period of the judges. In Judges 4–5 he is defeated by the Israelite forces led by Deborah and Barak, and while fleeing he is killed by Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite.

• ShushanBible

  Shushan (Susa) was a royal city of the Persian Empire that appears in the Old Testament books of Esther, Nehemiah, and Daniel. It is identified with the area around modern Shush in southwestern Iran.

• King James OnlyismDoctrine & Theology

  King James Onlyism is the position that the only correct Bible is the King James Bible, produced in England in 1611, or a translation that follows its underlying text, the Textus Receptus.

• ZebidahPeople

  Zebidah was a wife of King Josiah of Judah and the mother of King Jehoiakim. She is named only once, in 2 Kings 23:36, where she is identified as the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

• BarakPeople

  Barak was an Israelite military leader in the period of the judges who, at the summons of the prophetess Deborah, defeated Sisera, the commander of the army of the Canaanite king Jabin. He appears in Judges 4–5 and is named among the people of faith in Hebrews 11.

• AhithophelPeople

  Ahithophel the Gilonite was a counselor to King David, an official who devised plans and gave advice to the king. He joined Absalom's rebellion, and when his counsel was not followed, he took his own life in his hometown.

• NisrochBible

  In the Old Testament, Nisroch is the name of the god worshiped by the Assyrian king Sennacherib. According to the biblical account, Sennacherib was killed by two of his sons while worshiping in the temple of Nisroch.

• Habakkuk (Prophet)People

  Habakkuk was the prophet to whom the Old Testament Book of Habakkuk is attributed. Scripture gives his name only in the book's two headings and records nothing about his origins or life.

• 2 KingsBible

  Second Kings is a historical book of the Old Testament that records, in twenty-five chapters, the later history of the divided kingdom, from Elijah's ascent into heaven through the fall of the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah to the release of the captive King Jehoiachin.

• ZipporPeople

  Zippor is an Old Testament figure named only as the father of Balak, king of Moab. He appears in the text solely in the phrase "Balak the son of Zippor," and nothing is recorded about his own life or deeds.

• Zechariah 4:9–10Bible Verses

  A passage from Zechariah's fifth night vision that promises Zerubbabel will finish the temple rebuilding he began and warns against despising "the day of small things." It encourages small beginnings and is often quoted at church plants and building projects.

• Isaiah 41:10Bible Verses

  God's promise, "Fear thou not; for I am with thee," in which He pledges to strengthen His people and uphold them with the right hand of His righteousness. It is one of the most widely cited verses of comfort for believers facing anxiety and fear.