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• Pharaoh NechoPeople

  Pharaoh Necho was a king of Egypt who pressed hard upon Judah in the late seventh century BC. He killed King Josiah of Judah at Megiddo, deposed and installed kings of Judah, and was defeated by Babylon at Carchemish.

• CarchemishBible

  Carchemish was an ancient city on the west bank of the upper Euphrates River. It appears in Scripture as the place where Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon defeated the army of Pharaoh Necho of Egypt around 605 BC.

• JehoiakimPeople

  A king of Judah in the kingdom's final years and a son of Josiah. He was placed on the throne by Pharaoh Necho of Egypt and is known as the king who burned the scroll containing the words proclaimed by Jeremiah.

• Jehoahaz (King of Judah)People

  Jehoahaz was a son of King Josiah of Judah. He came to the throne after his father's death and reigned for three months. Pharaoh Necho of Egypt deposed him and carried him off to Egypt, where he died. The Book of Jeremiah refers to him as Shallum.

• 2 Chronicles 35Bible

  2 Chronicles 35 records the great Passover that Josiah, king of Judah, kept in the eighteenth year of his reign, his death at Megiddo in battle against Necho, king of Egypt, and the mourning for him.

• 2 Chronicles 36Bible

  2 Chronicles 36, the final chapter of 2 Chronicles, recounts the last four kings of Judah after Josiah, the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, the Babylonian exile, and the decree of Cyrus king of Persia permitting the return.

• 2 Kings 24Bible

  2 Kings 24 records King Jehoiakim of Judah's rebellion against King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Jehoiachin's surrender and the first large-scale deportation to Babylon, and the accession of Zedekiah.

• ZebidahPeople

  Zebidah was a wife of King Josiah of Judah and the mother of King Jehoiakim. She is named only once, in 2 Kings 23:36, where she is identified as the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

• NahorPeople

  Nahor is the name of two members of Abraham's family in the Book of Genesis: Abraham's grandfather (the father of Terah) and Abraham's brother (the son of Terah).

• N. T. WrightPeople

  N. T. Wright (Tom Wright, born 1948) is an English Anglican bishop and New Testament scholar. He served as Bishop of Durham and is regarded as a leading scholar of the "New Perspective on Paul."

• NehushtanBible

  Nehushtan is the name given to the bronze serpent that Moses made in the wilderness, in connection with its destruction by King Hezekiah of Judah. It appears only once, in 2 Kings 18:4, which records that Hezekiah broke the serpent in pieces to put an end to idolatry because the people had been burning incense to it.

• MediumBible

  In the Old Testament, a medium (KJV: one who has a familiar spirit) is a person who claims to communicate with the spirits of the dead or with other spirits and who consults or summons them. The Law forbade seeking out such people.

• Medium of EndorPeople

  The medium of Endor is a woman in 1 Samuel 28 who was said to call up the spirits of the dead. According to the biblical account, she called up the deceased Samuel at the request of King Saul on the eve of his battle with the Philistines.

• Deuteronomy 18Bible

  Deuteronomy 18 sets out the portion due to the Levitical priests, forbids the divination and necromancy (calling up the spirits of the dead) practiced by the nations of Canaan, and records God's promise to raise up a prophet like Moses, together with the criteria for distinguishing true prophets from false ones.

• RiblahBible

  Riblah was a town in the land of Hamath in Syria. The kings of Egypt and Babylon used it as a military base, and the Bible records it as the place where Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, interrogated and punished Zedekiah, king of Judah.

• DivinationBible

  Divination is the attempt to discover the future or the divine will through omens, instruments, or mediums. The Old Testament law forbids it, and the New Testament maintains the same position.

• Albert SchweitzerPeople

  Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) was an Alsatian theologian, philosopher, organist, and physician. His The Quest of the Historical Jesus left a major mark on historical Jesus research, and his medical work at Lambaréné in Gabon, Africa, earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952.

• Colonialism and MissionsHistory

  Colonialism and missions refers to the historical relationship in which European overseas expansion and Christian missionary work became intertwined from the fifteenth century onward. The term also covers the criticism and reassessment surrounding that relationship.