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• Mount HermonBible

  Mount Hermon is a high mountain north of the upper Jordan River, at the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon range. In the Old Testament it appears as the northern boundary of the land Israel possessed, and it is well known from "the dew of Hermon" in Psalm 133.

• ArabiaBible

  Arabia is a biblical place name for the desert regions east and south of Israel and for the peoples who lived there. In the New Testament it is known as the place where Paul went after his conversion (Galatians 1:17).

• Joshua 5Bible

  Joshua 5 is the chapter in which Israel, having crossed the Jordan River, performs circumcision and keeps the Passover at Gilgal. The manna then ceases, and near Jericho Joshua meets the captain of the host of the LORD.

• Jeremiah 27Bible

  Jeremiah 27 is the chapter in which Jeremiah wears a yoke on his neck and tells Judah and five neighboring nations to serve the king of Babylon. He also warns that prophecies of the temple vessels' imminent return from Babylon are false.

• MoreshethBible

  Moresheth was a town in southwestern Judah, identified in Scripture as the hometown of the prophet Micah. Micah 1:1 and Jeremiah 26:18 refer to him as "Micah the Morasthite."

• Jeremiah 8Bible

  Jeremiah 8 indicts Judah for its idolatry and refusal to repent, announces the coming judgment, and then laments deeply over the wounded people.

• 2 Kings 20Bible

  This chapter records how Hezekiah, king of Judah, fell ill and through prayer received fifteen more years of life; how he saw the sign of the sun's shadow going backward; how he showed his treasures to envoys from Babylon and then heard the prediction of captivity; and how he died.

• Waters of MeromBible

  The waters of Merom are the site where, according to Joshua 11, a northern Canaanite coalition led by Jabin king of Hazor encamped and was defeated in a surprise attack by Joshua. This battle opened the way for the conquest of northern Canaan.

• ElishaPeople

  Elisha was a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel who appears in the Old Testament books of Kings. He succeeded Elijah and is recorded as having performed many miracles.

• GibbethonBible

  Gibbethon was an Old Testament town in the territory of the tribe of Dan and a Levitical city, but by the period recounted in the books of Kings it belonged to the Philistines. King Nadab of Israel was assassinated while besieging it, and Omri was proclaimed king in the camp there.

• BasemathPeople

  Basemath is a wife of Esau in the Book of Genesis who, through her son Reuel, became an ancestor of the chiefs of Edom. Genesis 26 and Genesis 36 give differing accounts of her origin. The First Book of Kings mentions a daughter of Solomon who bore the same name.

• PekahiahPeople

  Pekahiah was a king of the northern kingdom of Israel who succeeded his father Menahem and reigned in Samaria for two years before he was killed in a conspiracy led by his captain Pekah (2 Kings 15:22–26).

• HamutalPeople

  Hamutal was the wife of King Josiah of Judah and the mother of Kings Jehoahaz and Zedekiah. She is identified as the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah, and her name appears in the Bible only in the accession records of her two sons.

• AbijahPeople

  Abijah was the second king of the southern kingdom of Judah during the divided monarchy, the son of Rehoboam and the father of Asa. The books of Kings call him "Abijam," and he reigned for about three years.

• Shalmaneser IIIPeople

  Shalmaneser III was a king of Assyria in the ninth century BC. Because his inscriptions name the Israelite kings Ahab and Jehu, they serve as an important extrabiblical source for the study of the period covered by the books of Kings.

• Puritan RevolutionHistory

  The Puritan Revolution refers to the civil wars fought in England from 1642 to 1651 between the Royalist supporters of Charles I and the Parliamentarians, whose core was made up of Puritans, together with the political upheaval that followed. The king was executed, a republic was established, and the Westminster Confession of Faith was produced during this period.

• GomerPeople

  Gomer was the wife of the prophet Hosea and appears in Hosea 1 as the daughter of Diblaim. The marriage of Hosea and Gomer serves as a symbol of the relationship between God and Israel.

• Joshua 12Bible

  Joshua 12 is a conquest list recording the two kings east of the Jordan whom Moses defeated (Sihon and Og) and the thirty-one kings west of the Jordan whom Joshua defeated.

• Iddo (Prophet)People

  Iddo was a prophet of the early divided kingdom who is called both a "seer" and a "prophet" in 2 Chronicles. He is said to have left writings recording the events of the reigns of Solomon, Rehoboam, and Abijah. Several other people in the Bible bear the same name.

• Daniel 11Bible

  Daniel 11 is part of the final vision in the Book of Daniel. It foretells the rise of kings in Persia, the division of a mighty king's kingdom, the conflicts between the "king of the south" and the "king of the north," a king who pollutes the sanctuary, and the wars of the time of the end.