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• Ezekiel 48Bible

  Ezekiel 48 is the final chapter of the Book of Ezekiel. It divides the restored land among the twelve tribes of Israel in long east-west strips, places the sanctuary and the city in their midst, and closes with the promise that the city will be named "Jehovah-shammah" ("The LORD is there").

• Tribe of ManassehBible

  The tribe of Manasseh was an Israelite tribe descended from Manasseh, the firstborn son of Joseph. Because it received land both east and west of the Jordan River, the expression "the half tribe of Manasseh" came into use.

• Joshua 13Bible

  Joshua 13 is the chapter in which the LORD tells the aged Joshua that very much land remains to be possessed and commands him to divide the land. It then records the territory east of the Jordan that the tribes of Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh received from Moses.

• Psalm 103:11-12Bible Verses

  Psalm 103:11-12 is a passage from a psalm traditionally attributed to David. It compares God's lovingkindness to the height of the heavens above the earth and His removal of sin to the distance between east and west. Regarded as an expression of the completeness of divine forgiveness, it is frequently cited in preaching and as a word of comfort.

• Via EgnatiaHistory

  The Via Egnatia was a trunk road that Rome built across the Balkan Peninsula in the late second century BC. It is known as the route the apostle Paul traveled on his way to Philippi and Thessalonica.

• 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.

• Cities of RefugeBible

  The cities of refuge were six towns designated by Old Testament law where a person who had killed someone unintentionally could escape blood vengeance, stand trial, and receive protection. Three were located east of the Jordan River and three west of it.

• Numbers 2Bible

  Numbers 2 is the chapter in which, in the wilderness of Sinai, the twelve tribes of Israel are arranged into four camps on the east, south, west, and north around the tent of meeting, and the order of their march is established.

• Ai (Place)Bible

  Ai was a Canaanite city east of Bethel. In the book of Joshua, it is the place where Israel was defeated in its first attack after the fall of Jericho and which it captured in a second attack.

• Joshua 14Bible

  Joshua 14 opens the distribution of the land west of the Jordan. It sets out the principle by which Eleazar and Joshua divide the land by lot among the nine and a half tribes. It also records how Caleb, at eighty-five, claims the hill country promised to him and receives Hebron as his inheritance.

• AiBible

  Ai was a town in the central hill country of Canaan, east of Bethel. It is best known from Joshua 7–8 as the place where Israel was first defeated because of Achan's sin and then captured the city in a second battle.

• CrusadesHistory

  The Crusades were a series of military expeditions undertaken by Catholic Western Europe from the late eleventh to the late thirteenth century at the call of the popes, with the stated aim of recovering Jerusalem and the other holy places from Muslim powers.

• Sergius PaulusPeople

  Sergius Paulus was the Roman proconsul of Cyprus mentioned in Acts 13. He sought to hear the word of God from Barnabas and Saul (Paul), and Scripture records that he believed after seeing the sorcerer Elymas struck blind.

• Rule of Saint BenedictHistory

  The Rule of Saint Benedict is a rule for monastic life written in the sixth century by Benedict of Nursia at the monastery of Monte Cassino. It addresses prayer and work, obedience, and communal life, and from the Middle Ages onward it became the foundational rule of Western monasticism.

• Psalm 107Bible

  Psalm 107 is a psalm of thanksgiving that opens Book V of the Psalms. It recounts in turn how wanderers in the wilderness, prisoners, the sick, and those caught in storms at sea cried out and were delivered, and it calls on all to praise the steadfast love of the LORD.

• Zephaniah 2Bible

  Zephaniah 2 calls Judah to repentance and then prophesies judgment on the surrounding nations, including Philistia, Moab, Ammon, Cush, and Assyria, along with the restoration promised to the remnant of Judah.

• Far East Broadcasting Company (Korea)Institutions

  The Far East Broadcasting Company (FEBC) is an interdenominational Protestant missionary radio broadcaster in South Korea that went on the air in Incheon in 1956. It is known for domestic gospel broadcasting and for its "northern mission" broadcasts aimed at communist countries such as North Korea, China, and Russia.

• MagiPeople

  The Magi were men from the East who, at the time of Jesus' birth, saw a star, came to worship the infant Jesus, and presented him with gold, frankincense, and myrrh. They appear only in Matthew 2.

• Byzantine EmpireHistory

  The Byzantine Empire is the name later given to the Eastern Roman Empire, which had Constantinople as its capital and endured until 1453. Early ecumenical councils were held there, and the Orthodox tradition developed within it.