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Hebraic Jews
[Bible]Hebraic Jews, called "the Hebrews" in Acts 6:1, were Jewish believers in the early Jerusalem church who were distinguished from the Hellenistic Jews. They are generally understood to have come mainly from Palestine and to have spoken Aramaic or Hebrew.
Stadion
[Bible]The stadion is a Greek unit of distance found in the New Testament, measuring about 185 meters. In Revelation it is used to give the dimensions of the New Jerusalem.
Assarion
[Bible]The assarion was a small copper coin used in the Roman Empire during the New Testament era. It appears when Jesus cites the price of sparrows to speak of God's care (Matthew 10:29; Luke 12:6).
Chedorlaomer
[People]Chedorlaomer was a king of Elam mentioned in Genesis 14. He led a coalition of four kings against five kings of the Jordan region and took Lot captive, but was afterward defeated by Abram.
Joanna
[People]Joanna is a woman mentioned in the Gospel of Luke, the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward. She ministered to Jesus and his disciples out of her own means and was one of the women who brought news of the empty tomb to the apostles on the morning of the resurrection.
Eliasaph
[People]Eliasaph is a name found in the Book of Numbers that refers to two men of the wilderness period: the chief of the tribe of Gad (son of Deuel) and the chief of the Gershonite clan of the tribe of Levi (son of Lael).
Bezer
[Bible]Bezer was a Reubenite city on the plain east of the Jordan River. It was one of the three cities of refuge that Moses set apart and was also a city given to the Levites.
John Owen
[People]John Owen (1616–1683) was an English Puritan theologian and pastor. A leading representative of the Congregationalists (Independents), he served as vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford. He is widely known for his works on sanctification, the life of growing in holiness, such as *The Mortification of Sin*.
2 Samuel 17
[Bible]2 Samuel 17 is the chapter in which the counsel of Ahithophel and the counsel of Hushai are set against each other before Absalom. Hushai's counsel is adopted, David escapes across the Jordan, and Ahithophel takes his own life.
2 Kings 3
[Bible]2 Kings 3 recounts how Jehoram king of Israel, together with Jehoshaphat king of Judah and the king of Edom, marches against rebellious Moab. When the armies run out of water in the wilderness, Elisha prophesies both water and victory. The chapter ends with Mesha king of Moab offering his firstborn son as a burnt offering.
2 Kings 21
[Bible]2 Kings 21 recounts the fifty-five-year reign of Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, who revived idolatry in Judah, and the judgment announced against Jerusalem and Judah. It also recounts the reign of his son Amon, who was killed by his servants after two years.
2 Chronicles 33
[Bible]2 Chronicles 33 records the fifty-five-year reign of Manasseh, king of Judah, and the two-year reign of his son Amon. Its central narrative tells how Manasseh, after extreme idolatry, was taken captive by Assyria, humbled himself in prayer, and was restored to his throne.
Hosea 1
[Bible]Hosea 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Hosea. Through the names of three children born to the prophet Hosea and his wife Gomer, it announces judgment on the northern kingdom of Israel and then promises restoration.
Matthew 9
[Bible]Matthew 9 is the chapter in which Jesus heals a paralytic, calls Matthew the tax collector, answers a question about fasting, heals several sick people, and raises a dead girl, and then tells his disciples to pray for laborers for the harvest.
Luke 8
[Bible]Luke 8 is the chapter in which Jesus travels through the region of Galilee proclaiming the kingdom of God. He teaches the parable of the sower, calms a storm, heals a demon-possessed man and a woman with an issue of blood, and raises the daughter of Jairus.
Acts 19
[Bible]Acts 19 records Paul's stay in Ephesus during his third missionary journey. There he baptizes disciples who had received only John's baptism, teaches for two years in the school of Tyrannus, and faces a riot stirred up by the silversmiths who made shrines of Artemis.
Revelation 22
[Bible]Revelation 22 is the final chapter of the Book of Revelation and of the entire Bible. It opens with a vision of the river of the water of life and the tree of life in the New Jerusalem, and it closes the book with the promise "Surely I come quickly" and the response "Even so, come, Lord Jesus."
Bera
[People]Bera was the king of Sodom mentioned in Genesis 14. He fought against the coalition led by Chedorlaomer and was defeated. When Abram returned after rescuing Lot, Bera proposed that Abram return the people and keep the goods for himself, but Abram refused.
Shinab
[People]Shinab was the king of Admah named in Genesis 14. He was one of five kings who fought against the coalition of four kings led by Chedorlaomer.
Emily Chubbuck
[People]Emily Chubbuck (1817–1854) was a nineteenth-century American writer known by the pen name "Fanny Forester." The third wife of Adoniram Judson, she served as a missionary in Burma and wrote a biography of Sarah Hall Boardman Judson.