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• Massah and MeribahBible

  Massah and Meribah are the names given to places in the wilderness where, after the Exodus, the people of Israel quarreled with Moses over the lack of water and tested God. Massah means "testing," and Meribah means "quarreling."

• MeribahBible

  Meribah is a Hebrew place name meaning "strife." It is the place where the Israelites in the wilderness quarreled with Moses because they had no water and where God brought water out of a rock. It appears in Exodus 17 and Numbers 20.

• RephidimBible

  Rephidim was a wilderness encampment where the Israelites stopped after the Exodus, just before reaching the wilderness of Sinai. It was the site of the water from the rock and of the battle with Amalek.

• Water from the RockBible

  The water from the rock refers to the events in which God, through Moses, brought water out of a rock when the Israelites in the wilderness complained because they had no water to drink. The events are recorded in Exodus 17 and Numbers 20.

• Psalm 95Bible

  Psalm 95 calls the congregation to praise and worship before the LORD. It then holds up the wilderness generation, which hardened its heart at Meribah and Massah, as a warning and urges its hearers to hear God's voice today.

• HorebBible

  Horeb is a mountain called "the mountain of God" in the Old Testament. There Moses received his call from the flame of fire in the bush and later received the Law, and there Elijah encountered God.

• Massacre of the InnocentsBible

  The Massacre of the Innocents was the killing, ordered by King Herod, of all male children two years old and under in Bethlehem and its surrounding region in an attempt to eliminate the newborn "King of the Jews." It is recorded only in Matthew 2.

• St. Bartholomew's Day MassacreHistory

  The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre was a wave of killings that began in Paris, France, on August 24, 1572. Catholic forces killed large numbers of Huguenots (French Protestants), and over the following weeks the massacre spread to the provinces.

• Armenian GenocideHistory

  The Armenian Genocide refers to the forced deportation and mass killing of Armenians by the government of the Ottoman Empire beginning around 1915, during World War I. Many scholars and a number of countries regard it as genocide, but the government of Türkiye does not accept this designation.

• Jeam-ri IncidentHistory

  The Jeam-ri Incident was a massacre on April 15, 1919, in Jeam-ri, Hyangnam-myeon, Suwon County, Gyeonggi Province, Korea (present-day Hyangnam-eup, Hwaseong City). Japanese soldiers and police gathered villagers in a Methodist church building, opened fire on them, and set the building ablaze. It is regarded as one of the most representative instances of repression during the March First Movement.

• LemuelPeople

  Lemuel is a king named in Proverbs 31 who passed on the instruction he received from his mother. He appears nowhere else in the Bible, and neither the nation he ruled nor the period in which he lived is known.

• JoashPeople

  Joash was a king of Judah who survived Athaliah's massacre of the royal family and came to the throne at the age of seven. He repaired the temple, but according to 2 Chronicles, after the death of the high priest Jehoiada he served idols and had Jehoiada's son Zechariah put to death.

• AbiatharPeople

  Abiathar was a priest in the days of Saul and David. The sole survivor of the massacre at Nob, he served David, but when Solomon came to the throne he was removed from the priesthood for having sided with Adonijah.

• Frank SchofieldPeople

  Frank William Schofield (1889–1970) was an English-born Canadian Presbyterian medical missionary and veterinary scientist. He is known in Korea by his Korean name, Seok Ho-pil (石虎弼). His photographs and writings made the March First Movement and the Jeamni massacre known to the world, and he is widely called the "34th National Representative."

• MordecaiPeople

  Mordecai was a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin who appears in the Old Testament Book of Esther. He raised his cousin Esther, thwarted Haman's plot to massacre the Jews, and rose to become second only to the king in the Persian Empire.

• NobBible

  Nob was a town in the territory of Benjamin where priests lived during the reign of Saul. There David received the showbread and the sword of Goliath, and there the priests were massacred at Saul's command.

• JehoshabeathPeople

  Jehoshabeath was the daughter of King Jehoram of Judah and the wife of the priest Jehoiada. When Athaliah massacred the royal family, she hid the young Joash and so preserved the line of the house of David. In 2 Kings she appears under the name Jehosheba.

• HatachPeople

  Hatach is a eunuch of the Persian court mentioned in the Book of Esther. King Ahasuerus appointed him to attend Queen Esther, and when Haman's decree for the massacre of the Jews was issued, he carried messages between Esther and Mordecai.

• Adoniram JudsonPeople

  Adoniram Judson (1788–1850) was an American Baptist missionary. Working in Burma (present-day Myanmar) for nearly forty years beginning in 1813, he produced the first complete translation of the Bible into Burmese, and his work was the catalyst for the formation of an American Baptist foreign mission organization.