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• HuldahPeople

  Huldah was a prophetess who lived in Jerusalem during the reign of Josiah, king of Judah. She delivered the word of God to the officials whom the king sent to inquire about the Book of the Law discovered in the temple.

• LuciferBible

  Lucifer is the Latin Vulgate's rendering of the "morning star, son of the morning" in Isaiah 14:12. In later tradition the word came to be widely used as the name of Satan before his fall.

• MordecaiPeople

  Mordecai was a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin who appears in the Old Testament Book of Esther. He raised his cousin Esther, thwarted Haman's plot to massacre the Jews, and rose to become second only to the king in the Persian Empire.

• AmraphelPeople

  Amraphel was a king of Shinar mentioned in Genesis 14. Allied with Chedorlaomer king of Elam, he fought against five kings, including the king of Sodom, and took Lot captive. He was later defeated by Abram, who pursued the invaders.

• HegaiPeople

  Hegai was a eunuch of Ahasuerus, king of Persia, in the Book of Esther. He had charge of the young women gathered as candidates to become queen. He showed favor to Esther, and she followed his instructions when she went in to the king.

• SargonPeople

  Sargon, known to scholars as Sargon II, was a king who ruled Assyria in the late eighth century BC. His name appears only once in the Bible, in Isaiah 20:1.

• Mene, Mene, Tekel, UpharsinBible

  Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin is the Aramaic inscription that the fingers of a man's hand wrote on the palace wall during the feast of Belshazzar, king of Babylon, in Daniel 5. Daniel interpreted it as God's declaration of judgment: the kingdom had come to an end and would be divided.

• Tiglath-pileserPeople

  Tiglath-pileser was an eighth-century BC king of Assyria. In 2 Kings and Chronicles he appears as the ruler who conquered Galilee and the territory east of the Jordan belonging to the northern kingdom of Israel and carried its inhabitants into captivity.

• NebuchadnezzarPeople

  Nebuchadnezzar was king of the Babylonian (Neo-Babylonian) Empire. He destroyed Jerusalem and its temple and carried the people of Judah into captivity. In the Book of Daniel, he is a central figure in the accounts of his dreams and the fiery furnace.

• AchborPeople

  Achbor was an official under King Josiah of Judah and a member of the delegation sent to the prophetess Huldah to inquire about the book of the law found in the temple. The same name also belongs to the father of Baal-hanan, a king of Edom.

• AdrammelechPeople

  Adrammelech was a son of the Assyrian king Sennacherib. Together with his brother Sharezer, he killed his father with the sword while the king was worshiping in a temple, and then fled to the land of Ararat.

• PedaiahPeople

  Pedaiah was a son of Jeconiah (Jehoiachin), king of Judah, and appears in the genealogy of 1 Chronicles 3. First Chronicles 3:19 records him as the father of Zerubbabel. Other passages name Zerubbabel as the son of Shealtiel, and this discrepancy has been the subject of discussion.

• NaamanPeople

  Naaman was the commander of the army of Aram described in 2 Kings 5. Afflicted with leprosy, he was healed after washing seven times in the Jordan River as the prophet Elisha instructed. Jesus refers to him in Luke 4:27.

• ShealtielPeople

  Shealtiel is a biblical figure recorded as the son of Jehoiachin (Jeconiah), the king of Judah who was carried captive to Babylon, and as the father of Zerubbabel, who led the rebuilding of the temple. His name also appears in the genealogies of Jesus in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.

• EdreiBible

  Edrei was a city in the region of Bashan east of the Jordan River, where Israel defeated Og, king of Bashan, near the end of the wilderness period. The book of Joshua also mentions a different city of the same name in the territory of the tribe of Naphtali.

• SanballatPeople

  Sanballat was a Horonite in the Book of Nehemiah who repeatedly obstructed the Jews who had returned from the Babylonian exile as they rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem.

• Kir-haresethBible

  Kir-hareseth was a city in the land of Moab, east of the Dead Sea. In 2 Kings 3 it is where King Mesha of Moab made his last stand against the allied forces of Israel, Judah, and Edom. The city also appears in the prophecies of Isaiah and Jeremiah concerning Moab.

• ShenazarPeople

  Shenazar was a son of Jeconiah (Jehoiachin), the king of Judah who was carried captive to Babylon. He is mentioned by name only, in the genealogy of the house of David in 1 Chronicles 3:18. Some scholars identify him with Sheshbazzar.

• MaochPeople

  Maoch is a figure named only once in Scripture, in 1 Samuel 27:2, as the father of Achish, the king of Gath with whom David took refuge while fleeing from Saul.

• Nergal-sharezerPeople

  Nergal-sharezer was a Babylonian official mentioned in Jeremiah 39. When Jerusalem fell, he sat in the middle gate of the city, and he took part in releasing Jeremiah, who had been confined in the court of the prison.