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• RizpahPeople

  Rizpah was the daughter of Aiah and a concubine of King Saul. She is known from 2 Samuel 21 for guarding the bodies of her two executed sons and of Saul's grandsons from the beginning of harvest until rain fell.

• ReubenPeople

  Reuben was the firstborn son of Jacob and Leah and the ancestor of the tribe of Reuben, one of the twelve tribes of Israel. Scripture records that he lost his position as firstborn because he lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine.

• Jotham (son of Gideon)People

  Jotham was the youngest son of Gideon (Jerubbaal) and appears in Judges 9. He alone survived when his brother Abimelech killed their brothers, and from Mount Gerizim he proclaimed the "parable of the bramble" to rebuke the men of Shechem.

• AiahPeople

  Aiah is a figure in 2 Samuel, the father of Rizpah, a concubine of King Saul. Scripture refers to him only as "the father of Rizpah" and records nothing else about his life.

• ArmoniPeople

  Armoni was the son of King Saul by his concubine Rizpah. During a famine in the reign of David, he was handed over to the Gibeonites and executed along with six other descendants of Saul, including his brother Mephibosheth (2 Samuel 21:8–9).

• MachirPeople

  Machir was the firstborn son of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, and the father of Gilead. His name also designates a branch of the tribe of Manasseh (the Machirites) that took possession of the land of Gilead east of the Jordan River.

• 2 Samuel 16Bible

  In 2 Samuel 16, David, fleeing from Absalom, receives provisions from Ziba and is cursed by Shimei, while Absalom enters Jerusalem and, on Ahithophel's advice, lies with his father's concubines.

• Eliphaz (Son of Esau)People

  Eliphaz was the firstborn son of Esau by his wife Adah. He appears in the Edomite genealogies of Genesis 36 and 1 Chronicles 1, which record him as the father of Amalek and the ancestor of several Edomite chiefs.

• Judges 19Bible

  Judges 19 tells of a Levite who, while returning from Bethlehem with his concubine, stops in Gibeah, a town of the tribe of Benjamin. There a mob assaults the concubine, and she dies. The Levite then divides her body into twelve pieces and sends them throughout all the territory of Israel.

• Amalek (son of Eliphaz)People

  Amalek was the son of Eliphaz, Esau's firstborn, by Eliphaz's concubine Timna. He was one of the chiefs of Edom and is traditionally regarded as the ancestor of the Amalekites.

• GibeahBible

  Gibeah was a town in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin. It is the setting of the account of the Levite's concubine and the ensuing Benjamite civil war in Judges 19–21, and it was the hometown of Saul, the first king of Israel.

• Judges 20Bible

  Judges 20 recounts the civil war in which the tribes of Israel assemble at Mizpah and fight against the tribe of Benjamin after the death of a Levite's concubine at Gibeah. Israel is defeated twice, then wins on the third day by means of an ambush, and only 600 Benjamites survive.

• Rock of RimmonBible

  The Rock of Rimmon was a rocky area toward the wilderness where six hundred Benjamites who survived the war with the other tribes of Israel during the period of the judges took refuge and remained for four months (Judges 20:47).

• BilhahPeople

  Bilhah was Rachel's handmaid in the Book of Genesis and a wife (concubine) of Jacob. She bore Dan and Naphtali, the ancestors of the tribes of Dan and Naphtali among the twelve tribes of Israel.

• Jotham's FableBible

  Jotham's Fable is the story recorded in Judges 9:7-21 that Jotham, the youngest son of Gideon, told the men of Shechem from the top of Mount Gerizim. In it the trees seek to anoint a king over themselves. The useful trees decline, and only the bramble offers to become king.

• AmalekBible

  Amalek was an ancient nomadic people whom the Bible presents as descendants of Esau. Because they attacked Israel shortly after the Exodus, the Amalekites are remembered throughout the Old Testament as Israel's archetypal enemy.

• Judges 21:25Bible Verses

  Judges 21:25 is the final verse of the Book of Judges. It sums up the disorder of the period of the judges by stating that there was no king in Israel and that every man did that which was right in his own eyes. The verse is frequently cited in discussions of the monarchy, the rule of God, and moral relativism.

• Genesis 25Bible

  Genesis 25 records the death of Abraham and the descendants of Keturah and Ishmael. It then recounts the birth of the twins Esau and Jacob to Isaac and Rebekah and tells how Esau sold his birthright for a bowl of pottage.

• MaachahPeople

  Maachah was the wife of Rehoboam, king of Judah, and the mother of Abijah (Abijam). During the reign of King Asa, she was removed from her position as queen mother for making an abominable image for Asherah.

• Midian (Son of Abraham)People

  Midian was a son of Abraham and Keturah and is recorded as the ancestor of the Midianites, who appear frequently in the Old Testament (Genesis 25:2–4).