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• ElymasPeople

  Elymas, also called Bar-Jesus, was a Jewish sorcerer who, according to Acts 13, opposed the preaching of Paul and Barnabas at Paphos on Cyprus and was struck temporarily blind.

• Hashabiah (Descendant of Merari)People

  Hashabiah was a Levite descended from Merari who returned with Ezra from Babylon to Jerusalem. He appears in Ezra 8 as one of the men to whom Ezra entrusted the silver, gold, and vessels offered for the temple.

• HadesBible

  Hades is the biblical term for the place to which the dead go. It renders the Old Testament Hebrew word Sheol and the New Testament Greek word Hades.

• Visible and Invisible ChurchDoctrine & Theology

  The visible and invisible church is a concept that views the church under two aspects. The invisible church is the whole body of true believers known only to God, while the visible church consists of the actual communities on earth that profess the faith and gather together.

• Joseph BarsabbasPeople

  Joseph Barsabbas was a disciple in the early church who was put forward, together with Matthias, as a candidate to fill the apostolic office left vacant by Judas Iscariot. He was surnamed Justus, and when lots were cast, Matthias was chosen.

• ChuzaPeople

  Chuza was the steward of Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee. He was the husband of Joanna, one of the women who ministered to Jesus and his company out of their own means, and he is named only once in Scripture, in Luke 8:3.

• PergaBible

  Perga was a city in the region of Pamphylia in southern Asia Minor. In the Book of Acts it appears as the place where Mark left Paul's company during the first missionary journey and as a city where Paul and his companions preached the word on their return.

• BarzillaiPeople

  Barzillai was a Gileadite from Rogelim in the time of David. During Absalom's rebellion, he supplied food and other provisions to David and his company, who had fled to Mahanaim. When David invited him to come to Jerusalem, he declined, citing his advanced age.

• NeapolisBible

  Neapolis was a port city on the eastern coast of Macedonia. It was the first place Paul and his companions reached after sailing from Troas, before they went on to Philippi (Acts 16:11).

• ShobiPeople

  Shobi was an Ammonite who brought food and household goods to David when David reached Mahanaim while fleeing Absalom's rebellion. He is introduced as the son of Nahash of Rabbah (2 Samuel 17:27).

• CTS Christian TVInstitutions

  CTS Christian TV is a South Korean Protestant television broadcaster that launched on December 1, 1995. It is known as South Korea's first Protestant television broadcaster. Numerous denominations hold shares in the company, and the heads of major denominations serve as its co-representative directors.

• Acts 28Bible

  Acts 28 is the closing chapter of the book of Acts. After the shipwreck, Paul comes ashore on the island of Melita and stays there three months. He then reaches Rome, proclaims the gospel to the Jewish leaders, and for two years boldly preaches the kingdom of God from a rented house.

• Revelation 14Bible

  Revelation 14 is the chapter of Revelation that presents the Lamb standing on Mount Zion with the 144,000, the proclamations of the three angels, the blessing on those who die in the Lord, and two harvest visions: the reaping of grain and the gathering of grapes.

• Oreb and ZeebPeople

  Oreb and Zeeb were two princes (commanders) of Midian who were captured and killed by the men of Ephraim when Gideon defeated the Midianites during the period of the judges. They appear in Judges 7–8 and Psalm 83.

• Numbers 17Bible

  Numbers 17 is the chapter in which, after Korah's rebellion, Aaron's rod alone among the rods of the twelve tribes buds and bears fruit, showing that God had chosen Aaron and the tribe of Levi for the priestly office.

• Ezra 9Bible

  Ezra 9 is the chapter in which Ezra, on hearing that the people and leaders who had returned to Jerusalem had intermarried with the surrounding foreign peoples, tears his garments in grief and, at the time of the evening sacrifice, offers a prayer confessing the sin of the whole people.

• Acts 16Bible

  Acts 16 recounts Paul's second missionary journey, during which Timothy joins him, a vision leads him across to Macedonia, and in Philippi the households of Lydia and the jailer are baptized.

• 1 Corinthians 5:9–10Bible Verses

  A passage in which Paul clarifies that his earlier instruction to the Corinthian church "not to company with fornicators" did not mean cutting off relationships with people outside the church. It is frequently cited in discussions of church discipline and of the Christian life in the world.

• Ezra 7:10Bible Verses

  This verse records that Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of the LORD, to do it, and to teach it in Israel. Because it presents the sequence of study, practice, and teaching, it is frequently cited in discussions of the proper disposition of ministers of the Word and of teachers.