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• DuraBible

  Dura was a plain in the province of Babylon where King Nebuchadnezzar set up a golden image and commanded all his officials to bow down to it (Daniel 3:1).

• The Fiery FurnaceBible

  The fiery furnace episode, recorded in Daniel 3, is the account of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who refused to bow down to the golden image set up by King Nebuchadnezzar, were thrown into a burning furnace, and came out alive and unharmed.

• Daniel 3:17–18Bible Verses

  Daniel 3:17–18 is the reply of Daniel's three friends before the fiery furnace: God was able to deliver them, "but if not," they would still not bow to the king's image. It is a classic passage on faith that holds firm regardless of the outcome and is often cited in discussions of faith under persecution and, in Korea, of the history of resistance to Shinto shrine worship.

• Plain of ShinarBible

  The plain of Shinar is the land in the Old Testament where Babel and the Tower of Babel were built. It is generally identified with southern Mesopotamia, the region later known as Babylonia.

• SharonBible

  Sharon is a coastal plain along the Mediterranean south of Mount Carmel. In the Old Testament it appears as pastureland and as a symbol of fertility and beauty, and it is best known from the phrase "the rose of Sharon" in Song of Solomon 2:1.

• SharonBible

  Sharon is a plain along the Mediterranean coast of Israel, extending south of Mount Carmel. In Scripture it serves as a symbol of fertility and beauty.

• GennesaretBible

  Gennesaret is a place name for the plain along the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee. In the New Testament, the name refers both to this land and to the lake named after it (the Sea of Galilee).

• Jezreel ValleyBible

  The Jezreel Valley is a broad plain in northern Israel between the hill country of Galilee and the hill country of Samaria. It is the setting for the stories of Gideon, Saul, Ahab, and Jehu, and in the Book of Hosea it becomes a symbol of both judgment and restoration.

• ShinarBible

  Shinar is an Old Testament place name for southern Mesopotamia, the region where Babylon later stood. It is best known as the setting of the Tower of Babel narrative.

• MamreBible

  Mamre is a place near Hebron where Abraham pitched his tent and built an altar. There he received a visit from three men and heard the promise that Isaac would be born. In the Bible, the name occurs only in Genesis.

• Sodom and GomorrahBible

  Sodom and Gomorrah were cities of the plain of the Jordan described in Genesis. Because of their wickedness, they were destroyed by brimstone and fire from heaven, and throughout the Bible they are repeatedly cited as an example of God's judgment.

• Tower of BabelBible

  The Tower of Babel is an event recorded in Genesis 11:1-9. After Noah's Flood, people who spoke a single language began building a city and a tower on the plain of Shinar, but God confounded their language and scattered them over all the earth.

• SodomBible

  Sodom is a city of the plain of the Jordan mentioned in Genesis. It was the home of Lot, and Scripture records that it was destroyed together with Gomorrah by brimstone and fire sent by God because of its wickedness. Throughout the Bible it serves as an example of God's judgment.

• PhilistiaBible

  Philistia is the name of both a people and the land they inhabited on the Mediterranean coastal plain of southwestern Canaan. In the Bible, the Philistines appear as a power that frequently opposed Israel from the period of the judges through the time of David.

• Admah and ZeboimBible

  Admah and Zeboim were cities in the plain of the Jordan, near the Dead Sea, that Scripture associates with Sodom and Gomorrah. They are recorded as having been destroyed together by God's judgment, and the Book of Hosea mentions them in a passage about God's compassion.

• GomorrahBible

  Gomorrah was a city in the plain of the Jordan mentioned in the Old Testament book of Genesis. It was destroyed by God's judgment together with Sodom, and in Scripture its name serves as a symbol of sin and judgment.

• Heber the KenitePeople

  Heber was a Kenite who appears in Judges 4–5. A descendant of Hobab, the father-in-law of Moses, he was the husband of Jael, who killed the Canaanite commander Sisera.

• ZoarBible

  Zoar was the small city to which Lot fled when Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed. It was one of the five cities of the plain of the Jordan, and its original name was Bela.

• Jordan RiverBible

  The Jordan River flows through the Sea of Galilee into the Dead Sea. In the Bible it is the boundary Israel crossed to enter Canaan and the place where Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist.