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• Jeong Yak-jongPeople

  Jeong Yak-jong (1760–1801) was a Catholic lay leader in late Joseon Korea. He wrote the Jugyo yoji (Essentials of the Lord's Teaching), regarded as the first catechism written in Hangul, served as the first president of the Myeongdohoe, and was martyred during the Sinyu Persecution of 1801.

• Zerah (Son of Reuel)People

  Zerah, a grandson of Esau and son of Reuel, was an Edomite chief listed in the Edomite genealogies of Genesis 36 and 1 Chronicles 1.

• Shammah (son of Jesse)People

  Shammah was the third son of Jesse of Bethlehem and an older brother of David. He appears as one of the sons whom God did not choose when Samuel anointed David.

• Shimea (son of Jesse)People

  Shimea was the third son of Jesse and an older brother of David. In 1 Samuel he appears as Shammah, and Scripture mentions him mainly when introducing his sons Jonadab and Jonathan.

• EthanPeople

  Ethan is the name of several Israelites in the Old Testament. It refers to "Ethan the Ezrahite," the wise man to whom Solomon is compared in 1 Kings; to the figure named as author in the superscription of Psalm 89; and to Ethan the Levite musician of 1 Chronicles.

• AnakPeople

  Anak was the ancestor of the "children of Anak" (the Anakim), who lived in the region of Hebron (Kirjath-arba) in Canaan. The Bible identifies him as the son of Arba and the father of Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

• Tamar (Daughter of David)People

  Tamar was the daughter of King David and Maacah, the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur, and the full sister of Absalom. Her rape by her half-brother Amnon is recorded in 2 Samuel 13.

• 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.

• Strange FireBible

  Strange fire is an expression from the incident in Leviticus 10 in which Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, died after offering incense in a manner God had not commanded. The underlying Hebrew phrase means "strange" or "foreign" fire.

• 1 Chronicles 3Bible

  1 Chronicles 3 records the sons of David, traces the royal line of Judah from Solomon to Josiah, and carries the genealogy of David's house beyond the Babylonian exile through the descendants of Jeconiah and Zerubbabel.

• MagogPeople

  Magog was a grandson of Noah and a son of Japheth, named in the genealogies of Genesis and 1 Chronicles. In Ezekiel and Revelation, his name is used for a northern land and for forces opposed to God.

• RaamahPeople

  Raamah is a figure in the Table of Nations in Genesis 10: a son of Cush, a grandson of Noah's son Ham, and the father of Sheba and Dedan. In the Book of Ezekiel, the same name refers to an Arabian people who traded with Tyre.

• ZichriPeople

  Zichri is a Levite named in the genealogy of Exodus 6. He was a grandson of Kohath, a son of Izhar, and a brother of Korah and Nepheg.

• ArphaxadPeople

  Arphaxad was the son of Shem, the son of Noah. In the genealogies of Genesis he is one link in the line running from Shem to Abraham, and his name also appears in the genealogy of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke.

• JavanPeople

  Javan was the fourth son of Japheth, the son of Noah, and appears in the Table of Nations in Genesis 10. In the Old Testament his name is also used for the Greek people and their land.

• SatanBible

  Satan is the name the Bible gives to an evil spiritual being who opposes and accuses God and His people. The Hebrew word means "adversary," and the New Testament uses it interchangeably with "the devil."

• TirasPeople

  Tiras was a grandson of Noah and a son of Japheth. His name appears only in the genealogies of Genesis 10 and 1 Chronicles 1, and nothing is recorded about his life.

• IzharPeople

  Izhar was a grandson of Levi and a son of Kohath. He was the uncle of Moses and Aaron and appears in biblical genealogies as the father of Korah, who rose up against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

• HoritesBible

  The Horites were a people who lived in the region of Mount Seir before the descendants of Esau arrived. They appear in Genesis and Deuteronomy, which record that they were later displaced by, or absorbed into, the Edomites.

• Genesis 6:1–4Bible Verses

  A brief and enigmatic passage stating that "the sons of God" took "the daughters of men" as wives and that the Nephilim were on the earth in those days. Since antiquity, interpreters have disagreed over whether the sons of God were angels, descendants of Seth, or kings.