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• Ebenezer

  [Bible]

  Ebenezer, Hebrew for "stone of help," is the name of the memorial stone that Samuel set up after defeating the Philistines, saying, "Hitherto hath the LORD helped us." A place of the same name also appears in 1 Samuel 4.

• Jezreel

  [Bible]

  Jezreel is a Hebrew place name meaning "God sows." It refers to a city in the northern kingdom of Israel and to the broad valley around it. The city held a royal palace of the house of Ahab and was the setting of the revolt led by Jehu. Jezreel is also the name of a son of the prophet Hosea.

• Kenites

  [Bible]

  The Kenites were a nomadic people of the Old Testament. Scripture records that Moses' father-in-law belonged to this people, and through this connection they lived alongside Israel and maintained friendly relations with the Israelites.

• Holy Place

  [Bible]

  The holy place, or sanctuary, is a sacred place set apart for God. In its narrower sense, it refers to the outer room of the tabernacle and the temple, located in front of the Most Holy Place, where the lampstand, the table of showbread, and the altar of incense stood.

• El Elyon

  [Bible]

  El Elyon is a Hebrew title for God meaning "God Most High." It first appears in Genesis 14 as the name of the God whom Melchizedek served.

• Chileab

  [People]

  Chileab was the second son of David, born to Abigail at Hebron. He appears by name only in 2 Samuel 3:3. In the parallel list in 1 Chronicles 3:1, the name "Daniel" appears in the same position.

• Prayer of Manasseh

  [Bible]

  The prayer of repentance offered by Manasseh, king of Judah, during the affliction of his captivity. It is recorded in 2 Chronicles 33, and a short Greek prayer bearing the same name has been transmitted among the Apocrypha (writings outside the canon).

• Nain

  [Bible]

  Nain was a small village in southern Galilee. It is mentioned only once in the Bible, in Luke 7:11, as the setting of the account in which Jesus raised a widow's only son.

• Obed-edom

  [People]

  Obed-edom was the owner of the house where the Ark of the Covenant remained for three months during the reign of King David. Scripture records that God blessed him and his entire household during that time. Chronicles also presents him as a Levite gatekeeper.

• Inheritance

  [Bible]

  Inheritance is a biblical term for a portion given by God or handed down from generation to generation. In the Old Testament it chiefly refers to the land that the tribes and families of Israel received by lot; in the New Testament it refers to the inheritance of salvation that believers will receive.

• 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.

• Valley of Eshcol

  [Bible]

  The Valley of Eshcol is a valley near Hebron where the twelve spies cut down a large cluster of grapes while scouting out Canaan. Its name means "cluster" in Hebrew.

• Christmas Dawn Caroling (Saebyeoksong)

  [Christian Life]

  Christmas dawn caroling (saebyeoksong) is a custom of Korean churches in which members go in groups, in the early hours of Christmas Day, to the homes of fellow members and sing Christmas hymns to announce the birth of Jesus.

• Testing (Trial and Temptation)

  [Christian Life]

  In Christian usage, testing refers both to a trial that refines faith and to a temptation that leads toward sin. In Korean Protestant churches, the corresponding term is also widely used in the expression *siheom deulda* ("to fall into testing"), which describes a person whose faith has been shaken or whose feelings have been hurt.

• Unleavened Bread

  [Bible]

  Unleavened bread (Hebrew matzah) is flat bread baked without leaven. In the Bible it was eaten at Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread in commemoration of the Exodus, and it was also used as a sacrificial offering.

• Robert Estienne

  [People]

  Robert Estienne (c. 1503–1559) was a French printer and classical scholar. In 1551 he became the first to number the verses of the Greek New Testament, and he is known for laying the foundation of the chapter-and-verse system used in the Bible today.

• Oded

  [People]

  Oded was a prophet active in Samaria, the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel, during the reign of King Ahaz of Judah. He rebuked the army of Israel and urged it to send back the captives taken from Judah (2 Chronicles 28:9-15).

• Beautiful Gate

  [Bible]

  The Beautiful Gate was one of the gates of the Temple in Jerusalem. According to Acts 3, it was the place where Peter and John healed a man who had been lame from birth.

• Mithredath

  [People]

  Mithredath is a Persian personal name found in the Book of Ezra. Two individuals bear this name: the treasurer of King Cyrus, who handed over the temple vessels to Sheshbazzar, and a man who wrote to King Artaxerxes.

• Pachomius

  [People]

  Pachomius (c. 292–346) was a fourth-century Egyptian monk. He is known as the first to organize cenobitic monasticism, in which a number of monks live together under a single rule.