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Sodom
[Bible]Sodom is a city of the plain of the Jordan mentioned in Genesis. It was the home of Lot, and Scripture records that it was destroyed together with Gomorrah by brimstone and fire sent by God because of its wickedness. Throughout the Bible it serves as an example of God's judgment.
Proverbs 25
[Bible]Proverbs 25 opens the collection of "proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out." Through brief images, it teaches about conduct before the king, disputes with neighbors, fitting speech, and self-restraint, and it instructs the reader to feed one's enemy.
Isaiah 14
[Bible]Isaiah 14 follows a promise of Israel's restoration with a taunt song over the fall of the king of Babylon, a declaration of judgment on Assyria, and a warning to Philistia.
Isaiah 39
[Bible]Isaiah 39 is the chapter in which Hezekiah shows all his treasures to the envoys of Merodach-baladan, king of Babylon, and Isaiah foretells that the royal wealth and some of the king's descendants will be carried away to Babylon.
Jeremiah 37
[Bible]Jeremiah 37 recounts how, during the reign of King Zedekiah, Jeremiah is arrested on a charge of desertion and imprisoned while the Babylonian army has temporarily withdrawn, and how the king secretly summons him to ask for a word from the LORD.
Ezekiel 31
[Bible]Ezekiel 31 is a prophecy addressed to Pharaoh, king of Egypt. It declares that just as Assyria, once as lofty as a cedar of Lebanon, was cut down for its pride and brought down to Sheol (the realm of the dead), so Pharaoh will share the same fate.
Daniel 5
[Bible]Daniel 5 tells how Belshazzar, king of Babylon, held a feast using vessels from the temple in Jerusalem, saw handwriting appear on the wall, and heard Daniel interpret it; that same night the kingdom fell.
Nethaniah
[People]Nethaniah was the son of Elishama, a member of the royal family in the final years of the kingdom of Judah. He was the father of Ishmael, who assassinated Gedaliah, the governor appointed by Babylon. Scripture mentions him only in connection with his son's name.
Eliadah
[People]Eliadah was the father of Rezon, who became an adversary of Israel during the reign of Solomon. He is a biblical figure named only once, in 1 Kings 11:23.
Proverbs 1:7
[Bible Verses]Proverbs 1:7 declares that the fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, stating the theme of the entire Book of Proverbs. Christian schools and educational institutions widely use it as a motto, and it is often cited in discussions of the relationship between faith and learning.
Jeremiah 1:5
[Bible Verses]A verse from the call narrative of Jeremiah in which God declares that He knew Jeremiah before forming him in the womb, sanctified him before he came forth, and ordained him a prophet to the nations. It is a representative verse on vocation and divine foreknowledge and is also cited in discussions of predestination and bioethics.
Mordecai
[People]Mordecai was a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin who appears in the Old Testament Book of Esther. He raised his cousin Esther, thwarted Haman's plot to massacre the Jews, and rose to become second only to the king in the Persian Empire.
Jerusalem
[Bible]Jerusalem is a city in the hill country of Judah. David made it his capital and Solomon built the temple there, making it the center of Israel's faith. Jesus was crucified and rose again there, and at the close of the Bible it becomes the symbol of the "New Jerusalem."
Philistia
[Bible]Philistia is the name of both a people and the land they inhabited on the Mediterranean coastal plain of southwestern Canaan. In the Bible, the Philistines appear as a power that frequently opposed Israel from the period of the judges through the time of David.
Genesis 14:18-20
[Bible Verses]Genesis 14:18-20 is the passage in which Melchizedek, king of Salem and priest of the most high God, blesses Abram on his return from battle, and Abram gives him a tenth. It is frequently cited in connection with the Epistle to the Hebrews' reading of Melchizedek as a type of Christ and in discussions of tithing.
Ziklag
[Bible]Ziklag was a town in the Negev region of southern Judah. Achish king of Gath gave it to David, who used it as his base while taking refuge in Philistine territory from Saul. It is known as the town raided by the Amalekites.
Jael
[People]Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, appears in Judges 4–5. She killed Sisera, the Canaanite commander who was fighting against Israel, in her tent, and the Song of Deborah praises her as one who shall be "blessed above women."
Salem
[Bible]Salem is the name of the city ruled by Melchizedek in Genesis 14. The Hebrew name shares a root with the word for "peace," and Jewish and Christian tradition generally regards it as an ancient name for Jerusalem.
Tabeel
[People]Tabeel was a man of the Persian period, mentioned in Ezra 4:7, who joined Bishlam and Mithredath in writing to King Artaxerxes in Aramaic. He is generally regarded as a different person from "the son of Tabeal" in Isaiah 7:6.
Dibon
[Bible]Dibon was a city of Moab on the plateau east of the Dead Sea, north of the Arnon Valley. It appears in the accounts of Israel's settlement east of the Jordan and in the prophecies against Moab, and it is known as the site where the Mesha Stele was discovered.