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Anathoth
[Bible]Anathoth was a priestly city in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin and the hometown of the prophet Jeremiah. It is best known for the account of Jeremiah's purchase of a field there during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem.
Nathan's Parable
[Bible]Nathan's parable is the story of a poor man's ewe lamb, told by the prophet Nathan to convict David of his sin after David lay with Bathsheba and caused the death of her husband Uriah (2 Samuel 12:1-4).
Zarephath
[Bible]Zarephath was a Phoenician town on the Mediterranean coast between Tyre and Sidon. The prophet Elijah stayed there during a drought and was provided for by a widow. In the New Testament the name appears as "Sarepta."
Diblaim
[People]Diblaim was the father of Gomer, the wife of the prophet Hosea. He is mentioned only once in the Old Testament, in Hosea 1:3.
Moresheth
[Bible]Moresheth was a town in southwestern Judah, identified in Scripture as the hometown of the prophet Micah. Micah 1:1 and Jeremiah 26:18 call him "Micah the Morasthite."
Lo-ammi
[People]Lo-ammi was the third child, a son, born to the prophet Hosea and his wife Gomer. His name means "not my people" in Hebrew. A symbolic name expressing the broken relationship between God and the northern kingdom of Israel, it appears in Hosea 1.
Bozrah
[Bible]Bozrah was a major city of Edom mentioned in the Old Testament. In the prophetic books it frequently appears as a symbol of the judgment that would fall on Edom, and it is widely identified with modern Buseirah in Jordan.
Ezekiel's Temple Vision
[Bible]An event recorded in Ezekiel 40–48. Ezekiel, a prophet of the Babylonian exile, saw in a vision a restored temple and land. The vision is best known for its account of a river that flows out from the temple and brings life to a dead sea.
Jedidiah
[Bible]Jedidiah, meaning "beloved of the LORD," is the name the LORD gave through the prophet Nathan to Solomon, the son of David and Bathsheba. It appears only in 2 Samuel 12:25.
The Five Visions of Amos
[Bible]The Five Visions of Amos is the collective name for five scenes that God showed the prophet Amos, recorded in Amos 7:1–9:4 in the Old Testament: the locusts, the fire, the plumb line, the basket of summer fruit, and the Lord standing beside the altar.
Achbor
[People]Achbor was an official under King Josiah of Judah and one of the delegation sent to the prophetess Huldah to inquire about the book of the law found in the temple. The same name also belongs to the father of Baal-hanan, a king of Edom.
Psalm 51
[Bible]Psalm 51 is a penitential psalm that its superscription attributes to David, written after the prophet Nathan rebuked him over the matter of Bathsheba. The psalmist confesses his sin and asks God to create a clean heart in him and restore the joy of salvation.
Micah 1
[Bible]The first chapter of the Book of Micah. It identifies the prophet Micah's era and hometown, proclaims the coming of the LORD and the judgment to fall on Samaria and Jerusalem, and closes with a lament over the towns of southwestern Judah.
Habakkuk 3
[Bible]The final chapter of the Book of Habakkuk, a prayer-poem in which the prophet Habakkuk celebrates God's past acts of deliverance and declares that even if every harvest fails, he will rejoice in the LORD.
Revelation 11
[Bible]Revelation 11 records the measuring of the temple; the two witnesses who prophesy for 1,260 days, are killed, and rise again; the sounding of the seventh trumpet; and the opening of the temple in heaven.
Beeri
[People]Beeri is an Old Testament figure mentioned only by name in Hosea 1:1 as the father of the prophet Hosea. Scripture records nothing else about his life.
Joel 2:28-29
[Bible Verses]God's promise that afterward he will pour out his Spirit upon all flesh, so that sons and daughters will prophesy, old men will dream dreams, and young men will see visions, and that he will pour out his Spirit even upon servants and handmaids. Quoted by Peter in his Pentecost sermon, the passage is a central text in interdenominational debates over the work of the Holy Spirit, spiritual gifts, and women's ministry.
Hannah
[People]Hannah is a woman in the Old Testament book of 1 Samuel, the wife of Elkanah and the mother of the prophet Samuel. She is known for the prayer and vow she made at the sanctuary in Shiloh while she was childless, and for the "Song of Hannah."
Acts 21:9
[Bible Verses]A verse reporting that when Paul and his companions stayed at the house of Philip the evangelist in Caesarea, Philip had four unmarried daughters who prophesied. Because it records the prophetic activity of women in the early church, it is frequently cited in discussions of women's ordination and the gift of prophecy.
Widow of Zarephath
[People]The widow of Zarephath is a widow from Zarephath in the region of Sidon who appears in 1 Kings 17. During a drought she fed the prophet Elijah, and her dead son was restored to life. Scripture does not record her name.