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• Joshua 9

  [Bible]

  Joshua 9 tells how the Gibeonites, disguised as envoys from a distant country, made a covenant of peace with Israel and how, even after their deception was exposed, they were spared because of the oath and became hewers of wood and drawers of water.

• Psalm 25

  [Bible]

  Psalm 25 is a prayer psalm of twenty-two verses whose superscription attributes it to David. It asks God for protection from enemies and from shame, for instruction in his ways, and for the forgiveness of sins. The Hebrew original is known as an acrostic poem that follows the order of the alphabet.

• Psalm 45

  [Bible]

  Psalm 45 is a "song of loves" of the sons of Korah. A royal wedding psalm, it praises the king's majesty, victories, and everlasting throne and celebrates the marriage in which the bride is brought into the royal palace. Verses 6–7 are quoted in Hebrews 1.

• Ahaziah

  [People]

  Ahaziah is the name of two kings who reigned during the divided monarchy of the Old Testament. One was the son of Ahab of the northern kingdom of Israel; the other was the son of Jehoram of the southern kingdom of Judah, who was pursued by Jehu and died at Megiddo.

• 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.

• Elhanan

  [People]

  Elhanan was an Israelite warrior who killed a Philistine giant during the wars of King David's reign. He appears briefly in 2 Samuel and 1 Chronicles and is often discussed in connection with a textual question about who killed Goliath.

• Elimelech

  [People]

  Elimelech is a man of Bethlehem in Judah who appears in the Book of Ruth. The husband of Naomi, he moved with his family to Moab to escape a famine and died there.

• Phaltiel

  [People]

  Phaltiel was the second husband of Michal, the daughter of Saul. Saul took Michal from David and gave her to him; according to 2 Samuel, she was later taken from him at David's demand, and he followed her, weeping.

• Jehoahaz

  [People]

  Jehoahaz was the eleventh king of the northern kingdom of Israel and the son of Jehu. According to 2 Kings 13, he suffered long oppression at the hands of Hazael king of Aram and then sought the LORD. A king of Judah also bore the same name.

• Shekinah

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Shekinah refers to the presence of God dwelling among his people, especially the glory in which that presence becomes visibly manifest. The term does not appear in the Bible; it was used in later rabbinic Jewish literature.

• Hilkiah

  [People]

  Hilkiah is the name of several people in the Old Testament. The best known is the high priest who found the Book of the Law in the temple during the reign of King Josiah of Judah. The priest of Anathoth who was the father of the prophet Jeremiah bore the same name.

• Elnathan

  [People]

  Elnathan was a man of Jerusalem in the final years of the kingdom of Judah and the father of Nehushta, mother of King Jehoiachin (2 Kings 24:8). He is widely identified with "Elnathan the son of Achbor," an official of King Jehoiakim mentioned in the Book of Jeremiah.

• Rabbinic Judaism

  [History]

  Rabbinic Judaism is the form of Judaism that was reconstituted after the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in AD 70, centered on the study of the Law, prayer, and the synagogue in place of sacrifice. Most of contemporary Judaism derives from this tradition.

• Libya

  [Bible]

  Libya (Lubim) is the biblical name for the land of North Africa west of Egypt and for its people. In the Old Testament its people appear alongside the Egyptian army; in the New Testament the region is named as a place of origin for the crowd gathered in Jerusalem at Pentecost.

• Ethan

  [People]

  Ethan is the name of several Israelites in the Old Testament. It refers to "Ethan the Ezrahite," the wise man with whom Solomon is compared in 1 Kings; the figure named in the superscription of Psalm 89 as its author; and Ethan the Levite musician of 1 Chronicles.

• Abihail

  [People]

  Abihail is a personal name in the Old Testament borne by several individuals, both men and women. The best known are the father of Esther, the daughter of Eliab (David's elder brother), and the father of the Levite Zuriel.

• Ram

  [People]

  Ram was an Old Testament figure of the tribe of Judah, the son of Hezron and the father of Amminadab. His name appears in the genealogies of David in Ruth and 1 Chronicles and in the genealogy of Jesus Christ in the Gospel of Matthew.

• Cherethites

  [Bible]

  The Cherethites were an Old Testament people living near the Philistine coastal region. They are best known as part of King David's bodyguard, "the Cherethites and the Pelethites," and many scholars associate them with the island of Crete.

• Judges

  [Bible]

  Judges is the seventh book of the Old Testament, a twenty-one-chapter historical book recounting the stories of the "judges" who led Israel from the death of Joshua until the establishment of the monarchy.

• Jonathan

  [People]

  Jonathan was the eldest son of Saul, the first king of Israel. Recorded in 1 and 2 Samuel, he distinguished himself by his courage in battle against the Philistines and became David's friend, entering into a covenant with him.