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Deuteronomy 4
[Bible]Deuteronomy 4 concludes Moses' first address. It urges Israel to keep the law without adding to it or taking from it, warns against making idols, records the setting apart of three cities of refuge east of the Jordan, and introduces the setting of the second address.
Yi Ja-ik
[People]Yi Ja-ik was a Korean Presbyterian minister active during the Japanese colonial period and the years immediately following liberation. Once a hired farmhand in the household of a wealthy family in Gimje, he became a minister, served three terms as moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, and was the first principal of Daejeon Theological Seminary.
Judges 7
[Bible]Judges 7 recounts how Gideon, following God's instructions, reduces his army to three hundred men and defeats the vast Midianite host with trumpets, pitchers, and torches.
1 Chronicles 2
[Bible]1 Chronicles 2 lists the twelve sons of Israel and then gives a detailed genealogy of the tribe of Judah. It records the lines of Hezron's three sons, Jerahmeel, Ram, and Caleb, and traces the line of Ram down to David.
Ezra 10
[Bible]Ezra 10 is the final chapter of the Book of Ezra. The people make a covenant to send away their foreign wives and the children born to them, and after a three-month investigation the chapter records a list of those who had married foreign women.
Esther 4
[Bible]Esther 4 is the chapter in which Mordecai, having learned of Haman's decree to destroy the Jews, urges Esther to go before the king and plead for her people. Esther asks for a three-day fast and then resolves to go in, saying, "If I perish, I perish."
Job 2
[Bible]Job 2 is the chapter in which Job, struck with sore boils over his entire body in a second trial, still does not sin with his lips, and in which his three friends come and sit with him in silence for seven days.
Job 42
[Bible]Job 42 is the final chapter of the Book of Job. Job answers the LORD and repents. The LORD then rebukes Job's three friends and restores Job's fortunes, giving him twice as much as he had before.
Psalm 134
[Bible]Psalm 134 is the last of the "Songs of Ascents" (Psalms 120–134). A short psalm of praise in three verses, it calls the servants of the LORD who minister in the temple by night to bless the LORD and prays for the blessing that comes out of Zion.
Daniel 10
[Bible]Daniel 10 is the chapter in which, in the third year of Cyrus, Daniel mourns and fasts for three weeks and then sees a vision of a man clothed in linen beside the river Hiddekel. It introduces the final vision, which continues through chapters 11–12.
Acts 2
[Bible]Acts 2 is the chapter in which the Holy Spirit comes upon the disciples on the day of Pentecost and, following Peter's sermon, about three thousand people are baptized, marking the beginning of the church in Jerusalem.
John 18
[Bible]John 18 recounts the arrest of Jesus in a garden across the brook Kidron, his appearances before Annas and Caiaphas, and his interrogation by the Roman governor Pilate. Meanwhile, Peter denies Jesus three times, and the crowd demands that Barabbas be released instead of Jesus.
Acts 28
[Bible]Acts 28 is the closing chapter of the book of Acts. After the shipwreck, Paul comes ashore on the island of Melita and stays there three months. He then reaches Rome, proclaims the gospel to the Jewish leaders, and for two years boldly preaches the kingdom of God from a rented house.
Oreb
[People]Oreb was one of the two princes (leaders) of Midian who were captured and killed by the men of Ephraim during the judge Gideon's war against Midian. He appears in Judges 7 and 8 and is mentioned again in the Psalms and Isaiah as an example of God's overthrow of His enemies.
Joel
[Bible]Joel is the second book of the Minor Prophets in the Old Testament. Occasioned by a locust plague, it calls the people to repentance and contains God's promise to pour out His Spirit upon all flesh.
Modalism
[Heresies & Cults]Modalism, also known as Sabellianism, is the view that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are not three distinct persons. On this view, they are three modes, or manifestations, in which the one God has revealed himself in different ages and roles. The church rejected modalism in the third century.
John 21:15–17
[Bible Verses]John 21:15–17 is the passage in which the risen Jesus, on the shore of the Sea of Tiberias, asks Simon Peter three times, "Lovest thou me?" and charges him, "Feed my sheep." It is frequently cited as a text about Peter's restoration and the pastoral calling.
Benaiah
[People]Benaiah was a warrior who commanded King David's bodyguard and, under King Solomon, succeeded Joab as commander of the army. He appears in 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, and 1 Chronicles.
Iddo (Prophet)
[People]Iddo was a prophet of the early divided kingdom who is called both a "seer" and a "prophet" in 2 Chronicles. He is said to have left writings recording the events of the reigns of Solomon, Rehoboam, and Abijah. Several other people in the Bible bear the same name.
Prophetic Symbolic Actions
[Bible]"Prophetic symbolic action" is a descriptive term for actions by which the Old Testament prophets made God's message visible through gestures, objects, and their own lives, alongside their spoken words.