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Jehu (son of Hanani)
[People]Jehu, the son of Hanani, was a prophet of the divided monarchy who announced the destruction of the house of Baasha, king of northern Israel, and rebuked Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, for helping Ahab.
Urijah (prophet)
[People]Urijah, the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath-jearim, was a prophet in the reign of King Jehoiakim of Judah. He prophesied judgment in the same terms as Jeremiah and fled to Egypt, but he was brought back and put to death by the king's sword. He appears only in Jeremiah 26.
Kore
[People]Kore was a Levite, the son of Imnah, who served during the reign of King Hezekiah of the southern kingdom of Judah. He was gatekeeper of the east gate of the temple and was placed in charge of distributing the freewill offerings and the most holy things (2 Chronicles 31:14).
Ahijah
[People]Ahijah was a prophet from Shiloh who was active in the last years of Solomon's reign and during the reign of Jeroboam I. He tore his garment into twelve pieces to foretell the division of the kingdom, and he later prophesied the destruction of the house of Jeroboam.
Wedding Garment
[Bible]The wedding garment is the attire that the king requires of a guest at the feast in Jesus' parable of the wedding feast (Matthew 22:1–14). Interpretations of what the garment signifies vary among denominations and traditions.
Cherethites and Pelethites
[Bible]The Cherethites and Pelethites were the king's personal troops during the reign of King David, commanded by Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. They are commonly understood to have been a bodyguard made up of foreign mercenaries.
Pharaoh Hophra
[People]Pharaoh Hophra was a king of Egypt during the final years of the kingdom of Judah. He is named only once in the Bible, in Jeremiah 44:30, and is known as the Egyptian king on whom Judah relied in its resistance to Babylon.
Evil-merodach
[People]Evil-merodach was the king of Babylon who succeeded Nebuchadnezzar. The closing portions of 2 Kings and Jeremiah record that in the year he came to the throne he released Jehoiachin, the captive king of Judah, from prison and treated him generously.
2 Chronicles 22
[Bible]2 Chronicles 22 recounts the one-year reign of Ahaziah, king of Judah, and his death at the hands of Jehu. It then tells how the young Joash was hidden in the temple while Ahaziah's mother, Athaliah, killed the royal family and seized the throne.
Esther 6
[Bible]Esther 6 recounts how King Ahasuerus, unable to sleep, has the court records read to him and learns of Mordecai's service, and how Haman, who had intended to have Mordecai put to death, is instead assigned to honor him in a dramatic reversal.
Valley of Siddim
[Bible]The Valley of Siddim is the valley in Genesis 14 where a coalition of four kings fought a coalition of five kings, including the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah. Scripture identifies it as "the salt sea."
Pharaoh Necho
[People]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.
Walk to Canossa
[History]The Walk to Canossa was the event of January 1077 in which the excommunicated German king Henry IV sought forgiveness from Pope Gregory VII at the castle of Canossa in northern Italy and received absolution. It is regarded as an emblematic episode of the Investiture Controversy, the medieval conflict between the papacy and secular rulers.
2 Chronicles 14
[Bible]2 Chronicles 14 records how Asa, king of Judah, came to the throne, removed idols, and fortified cities so that the land enjoyed peace, and how he met and defeated the vast army of Zerah the Ethiopian (Cushite) through prayer.
2 Chronicles 21
[Bible]2 Chronicles 21 recounts the eight-year reign of Jehoram, king of Judah. After Jehoram kills his brothers and follows the way of Ahab, he receives a letter of warning from Elijah. After Edom and Libnah revolt and foreign enemies invade, he dies of a disease of the bowels.
2 Chronicles 25
[Bible]2 Chronicles 25 recounts the reign of Amaziah, king of Judah. After defeating Edom, he worships the gods of Edom and provokes Joash, king of Israel, to battle, only to be defeated. The chapter closes with his death in a conspiracy.
Esther 3
[Bible]Esther 3 is the chapter in which King Ahasuerus promotes Haman, Mordecai refuses to bow to him, and the enraged Haman casts Pur (the lot) to fix a date and secures a decree ordering the destruction of all the Jews in the Persian Empire.
Daniel 4
[Bible]Daniel 4 is the chapter in which King Nebuchadnezzar dreams of a great tree and, as Daniel had interpreted, lives like a beast for seven times before being restored. He then issues a first-person decree praising the Most High God.
Mephibosheth
[People]Mephibosheth, the grandson of King Saul and the son of Jonathan, became lame in both feet as a child. He appears in 2 Samuel and is best known for the account in which David, remembering his covenant with Jonathan, received him at the king's table.
Genesis 14:18-20
[Bible Verses]Genesis 14:18-20 is the passage in which Melchizedek, king of Salem and priest of the most high God, blesses Abram on his return from battle, and Abram gives him a tenth. It is frequently cited in connection with the Epistle to the Hebrews' reading of Melchizedek as a type of Christ and in discussions of tithing.