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• Holy of HoliesBible

  The Holy of Holies, or Most Holy Place, was the innermost chamber of the tabernacle and of the Temple in Jerusalem. The ark of the covenant was kept there, and only the high priest could enter it, once a year on the Day of Atonement.

• Joshua 15Bible

  Joshua 15 records the boundaries of the land that the tribe of Judah received by lot and lists its towns region by region. The chapter also includes the account of Caleb taking Hebron and Othniel capturing Debir.

• OthnielPeople

  Othniel is the first judge in the Old Testament Book of Judges. The son of Kenaz and a member of Caleb's family, he delivered Israel from Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia.

• Eglon (City)Bible

  Eglon was a city in the lowland of southern Canaan. In Joshua 10 it joined an alliance of five Amorite kings and was conquered by Joshua. It later became part of the territory of the tribe of Judah.

• PiramPeople

  Piram was the king of the Canaanite city of Jarmuth mentioned in Joshua 10. He joined the coalition of five Amorite kings led by Adonizedek, king of Jerusalem, was defeated by Joshua, and was executed at Makkedah.

• JaphiaPeople

  Japhia was king of the Canaanite city of Lachish, mentioned in Joshua 10. He joined a coalition of five Amorite kings led by Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, was defeated by Joshua, and was executed at Makkedah.

• DeborahPeople

  Deborah was a prophetess and judge in the Old Testament Book of Judges, known for defeating the army of Jabin, king of Canaan, together with Barak, and for the Song of Deborah, which commemorates the victory.

• Deborah, Rebekah's NursePeople

  Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, is a figure in the Book of Genesis who died while Jacob's household was staying at Bethel. She was buried beneath an oak below Bethel, and the tree was named Allon-bachuth.

• Lo-debarBible

  Lo-debar was a town in the region of Gilead east of the Jordan River, where Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, lived before David summoned him. It appears in 2 Samuel 9 and 17.

• Song of DeborahBible

  The Song of Deborah is a victory song recorded in Judges 5. Deborah, a prophetess and judge, sang it to God together with Barak after they defeated the army of the Canaanite commander Sisera.

• Judges 5Bible

  Judges 5 is a poem celebrating the victory of Deborah and Barak over Sisera, commander of the Canaanite army. It contrasts the tribes that joined the battle with those that stayed away, praises Jael, and closes by noting that the land had rest for forty years.

• LapidothPeople

  Lapidoth is an Old Testament figure in the book of Judges, the husband of Deborah, the prophetess and judge. The Bible mentions him by name only once, in Judges 4:4.

• Hosea 6:6Bible Verses

  A declaration that God desires steadfast love rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. Jesus quoted the verse twice in disputes with the Pharisees, and it is a key text on the relationship between worship and life, and between ritual and love.

• Mark 11:24Bible Verses

  Mark 11:24 is a saying of Jesus: "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." The verse encourages the prayer of faith, but it has become a focus of controversy because it is cited in support of so-called "positive confession" and prosperity theology.

• CovetousnessDoctrine & Theology

  Covetousness is an excessive desire to possess what belongs to another or what one has not been granted. The last of the Ten Commandments forbids it, and the New Testament regards covetousness as a sin equivalent to idolatry.

• Judges 4Bible

  Judges 4 recounts how, under the oppression of the Canaanite king Jabin and his army commander Sisera, the prophetess and judge Deborah commissions Barak to deliver Israel, and how Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, kills Sisera.

• Genesis 3:16Bible Verses

  Genesis 3:16 records God's words to the woman after the Fall, in which He increases her pain in childbirth and declares that her husband "shall rule over thee." In discussions of the relationship between men and women, interpreters disagree over whether the verse establishes an order ordained by God or describes a distortion produced by sin.

• Voluntary PovertyChristian Life

  Voluntary poverty is the choice to live simply and without desire for wealth, out of purity of heart. In Christianity, it denotes an attitude of faith that is not bound by possessions but relies on God and embraces a modest life.

• 1 Timothy 6:9–10Bible Verses

  A passage in which Paul warns Timothy that the desire to be rich and the love of money lead people away from the faith. Because it identifies not money itself but "the love of money" as the root of evil, it is frequently cited in discussions of the Christian view of material possessions and of prosperity theology.