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Micah 3
[Bible]Micah 3 indicts the leaders of the house of Jacob, the prophets who prophesy for money, and the priests who teach for hire, and it declares that because of them Zion and Jerusalem will be laid waste.
Psalm 85
[Bible]Psalm 85 is a psalm of the sons of Korah that recalls God's past grace in bringing back the captives, pleads with Him to revive His people again, and portrays a restoration in which mercy and truth, righteousness and peace meet together.
Isaiah 48
[Bible]Isaiah 48 rebukes the stubbornness of Israel, God's people in name only, while declaring that God, for His own name's sake, will not destroy them but will deliver them from Babylon.
Tribe of Judah
[Bible]The tribe of Judah was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, made up of the descendants of Judah, the fourth son of Jacob and Leah. It was the central tribe of the Davidic royal house and of the southern kingdom of Judah, and the New Testament presents Jesus as a descendant of this tribe.
Bethel
[Bible]Bethel is a place in the land of Canaan whose name means "house of God." Jacob encountered God there in a dream, and after the division of the kingdom it became the site of one of the golden calf altars of the northern kingdom of Israel.
Tribe of Ephraim
[Bible]The tribe of Ephraim was an Israelite tribe made up of the descendants of Ephraim, the second son of Joseph. It settled in the central hill country of Canaan, and after the division of the kingdom its name came to stand for the northern kingdom of Israel.
Genesis 46
[Bible]Genesis 46 is the chapter in which Jacob leads his entire household down to Egypt and is reunited with Joseph in Goshen. It includes a list of the seventy members of Jacob's house who came into Egypt.
Luz
[Bible]Luz was the earlier name of the city that Jacob renamed Bethel. It appears in Genesis, Joshua, and Judges; Judges also mentions a different city of the same name founded in the land of the Hittites.
Manasseh (son of Joseph)
[People]Manasseh was the firstborn son of Joseph, born in Egypt. Adopted by Jacob as his own son, he became the ancestor of one of the tribes of Israel. He is distinct from Manasseh, king of Judah.
Tribe of Manasseh
[Bible]The tribe of Manasseh was an Israelite tribe descended from Manasseh, the firstborn son of Joseph. Because it received land both east and west of the Jordan River, the expression "the half tribe of Manasseh" came into use.
Genesis 43
[Bible]Genesis 43 is the chapter in which, as the famine continues, Jacob's sons take Benjamin with them on a second journey down to Egypt and are entertained in Joseph's house.
Succoth
[Bible]Succoth is a Hebrew place name meaning "booths." In the Old Testament it refers both to a town east of the Jordan River and to the place in Egypt that Israel first reached after setting out from Rameses at the Exodus.
Beth-aven
[Bible]Beth-aven is a place name meaning "house of vanity (or wickedness)." In Joshua and 1 Samuel it refers to a site near Bethel, while in Hosea it serves as a derisive name for Bethel, where the calf idol was worshiped.
Calebites
[Bible]The Calebites were the descendants of Caleb the son of Jephunneh, or the group belonging to his house. The term is used in 1 Samuel 25 to introduce Nabal, and the Calebites are portrayed as living in the region of Hebron in southern Judah.
Millo
[Bible]Millo was the name of a structure, or of the area around it, in the City of David in Jerusalem. It was the point from which David began building the city, and Solomon and Hezekiah later rebuilt or reinforced it.
Son of David
[Bible]A term meaning a descendant of King David. In the New Testament it is applied to Jesus as a messianic title for the king who, in keeping with the Old Testament promise, was to come from the house of David.
Stem of Jesse
[Bible]The "stem of Jesse" is an image from Isaiah 11:1 in which a shoot springs from the stump of Jesse, the father of David. The expression prophesies an ideal king who will arise from the house of David. Christians generally read it as a messianic prophecy concerning Jesus Christ.
Zebadiah (son of Ishmael)
[People]Zebadiah, the son of Ishmael and ruler of the house of Judah, lived during the reign of King Jehoshaphat of Judah. When the king established a judicial system in Jerusalem, Zebadiah was placed over "all the king's matters" (2 Chronicles 19:11).
Josiah (son of Zephaniah)
[People]Josiah, the son of Zephaniah, owned the house where a group of returned exiles gathered. He appears in Zechariah 6:10 and is called "Hen" in Zechariah 6:14.
Rechabites
[Bible]The Rechabites were the descendants of Jehonadab (Jonadab) the son of Rechab. In obedience to their ancestor's command, they drank no wine, built no houses, and lived in tents. They appear in Jeremiah 35 as an example of obedience.