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• Brother LawrencePeople

  Brother Lawrence, born Nicolas Herman, was a seventeenth-century French lay brother of the Discalced Carmelites. He taught that one should remain constantly aware of God even while working, and The Practice of the Presence of God, a collection of his teachings, has made him widely known across denominational lines.

• Geertruydt JansdochterPeople

  Geertruydt Jansdochter was a sixteenth-century Dutch woman and the wife of the Anabaptist leader Menno Simons. After their marriage around 1536, she spent many years with her husband as a refugee fleeing persecution.

• 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.

• HemanPeople

  Heman is an Old Testament figure who appears in 1 and 2 Chronicles as a Levite worship leader in charge of temple music in the time of David. The same name also appears in the title of Psalm 88 and in 1 Kings 4.

• Hermann GunkelPeople

  Hermann Gunkel (1862–1932) was a German Protestant Old Testament scholar. He is regarded as the founder of form criticism, a method that analyzes biblical texts according to their literary genres and the settings in life in which they arose.

• August Hermann FranckePeople

  August Hermann Francke (1663–1727) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, and educator. He led Halle Pietism and founded an orphanage and several schools in Halle.

• Psalm 88Bible

  Psalm 88 is a lament psalm of the sons of Korah whose superscription identifies it as a "Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite." The psalmist cries out to God from suffering that has brought him near to death. The psalm is known for ending without comfort or praise, closing on the word "darkness."

• Caesarea PhilippiBible

  Caesarea Philippi was a city on the southern slopes of Mount Hermon, near the sources of the Jordan River. The Gospels present it as the place where Jesus asked His disciples, "But whom say ye that I am?" and where Peter made his confession of faith.

• Student Volunteer MovementHistory

  The Student Volunteer Movement (SVM) was an interdenominational student missionary movement that began in 1886 at a student Bible conference at Mount Hermon in the United States. It recruited college students as foreign missionaries and, under the watchword "The Evangelization of the World in This Generation," is reported to have sent out more than twenty thousand missionaries.

• JeduthunPeople

  Jeduthun was a Levite musician in the time of David who was responsible for praise in temple worship. With Asaph and Heman, he was one of three leaders who directed the singing and instrumental music.

• 1 Chronicles 6Bible

  1 Chronicles 6 presents the genealogy of the tribe of Levi. It contains the line of the Aaronic high priests, the genealogies of Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, whom David appointed to lead the singing, and a list of the cities given to the descendants of Levi.

• 1 Chronicles 25Bible

  1 Chronicles 25 records how David appointed 288 singers for the temple from among the descendants of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun and divided them by lot into twenty-four divisions of twelve each.

• Psalm 133Bible

  Psalm 133 is one of the Songs of Ascents. This brief three-verse psalm celebrates the beauty of brothers dwelling together in unity, comparing it to the oil poured on Aaron's head and to the dew of Hermon.

• Tel Dan SteleHistory

  The Tel Dan Stele consists of fragments of a ninth-century BC Aramaic stone inscription discovered in 1993–1994 at Tel Dan in northern Israel. It is widely accepted as the earliest extrabiblical source containing the phrase "House of David."

• 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.

• Nicolaus von ZinzendorfPeople

  Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (1700–1760) was a German count and Pietist leader. He founded the Herrnhut community, revived the Moravian Brethren, and is regarded as a leading pioneer of Protestant foreign missions.

• Psalm 89Bible

  Psalm 89 is a fifty-two-verse poem that praises the everlasting nature of God's covenant with David. Confronted with the collapse of the dynasty, it then laments and asks where that promise has gone. Its final verse is a doxology that closes Book III of the Psalms.

• Nicolaus Ludwig von ZinzendorfPeople

  Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (1700–1760) was an eighteenth-century German Pietist count. By receiving Moravian refugees on his estate at Herrnhut, he revived the Moravian Church, and he was a leading pioneer of Protestant foreign missions.

• Psalm 133:1Bible Verses

  A verse celebrating how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. It is frequently read at joint worship services of churches and denominations and at family gatherings, and it is cited by various sides in debates over how far the scope of unity should extend.