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• Gaza

  [Bible]

  Gaza was a major Philistine city on the Mediterranean coast in southwestern Canaan. It appears in the Samson narrative in Judges and in Acts 8, where Philip met the Ethiopian eunuch on "the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza."

• Seventy Elders

  [Bible]

  The seventy elders were a group of seventy leaders chosen from among the elders of Israel in the time of Moses. They appear in Exodus 24 and Numbers 11, and a group of seventy elders also appears in Ezekiel 8.

• Mina

  [Bible]

  The mina was a unit of weight and currency used in the ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world. In the New Testament it appears in the Parable of the Minas in Luke 19, and in the Old Testament the same unit appears under its Hebrew name, maneh.

• Joram (King of Israel)

  [People]

  Joram was a king of the northern kingdom of Israel who appears in 2 Kings in the Old Testament. He was the son of Ahab and Jezebel. He was killed by Jehu at Jezreel, and his death ended the reign of the house of Ahab.

• Ekron

  [Bible]

  Ekron was one of the five principal cities of the Philistines in the Old Testament. The ark of God was sent there, and 2 Kings refers to it as the city of "Baalzebub the god of Ekron."

• Socoh

  [Bible]

  Socoh is the name of a town in the territory of Judah mentioned in the Old Testament. It is best known as the place where the Philistine army encamped just before the battle between David and Goliath. More than one place bore this name.

• Arnon River

  [Bible]

  The Arnon is a river and deep gorge that flows into the Dead Sea from the east. In the Old Testament it appears as the boundary between Moab and the land of the Amorites. It is generally identified with the Wadi Mujib in present-day Jordan.

• City of David

  [Bible]

  The City of David is a phrase used in Luke 2 for Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, identifying it as the hometown where David was born and raised. In the Old Testament, the same original-language expression refers instead to the stronghold of Zion in Jerusalem.

• Cup of Wrath

  [Bible]

  The cup of wrath is a biblical image that likens the judgment and anger God sends to a cup of wine that people must drink. It appears in the Old Testament prophets and the Psalms and carries into the New Testament in the prayer in Gethsemane and the Book of Revelation.

• Masoretes

  [Bible]

  The Masoretes were Jewish scholars, active roughly from the sixth to the tenth century, who copied and transmitted the Hebrew text of the Old Testament, adding vowel points, cantillation marks, and marginal notes that recorded how the text was to be read.

• Agur

  [People]

  Agur is the figure credited with the words of Proverbs 30 in the Old Testament. He is introduced only as "the son of Jakeh," and Scripture records nothing else about his life.

• Ugaritic Texts

  [History]

  The Ugaritic texts are clay tablets unearthed beginning in 1929 at the site of the ancient city of Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra) on the northwestern coast of Syria. They are regarded as a key source for the language and religion of Canaan in the Old Testament period.

• Tetragrammaton

  [Bible]

  The Tetragrammaton is the term for the four Hebrew consonants (יהוה, YHWH) that spell the proper name of God in the Old Testament. Among Korean Bible translations, the New Korean Revised Version renders this name as "Yeohowa" (Jehovah).

• Seed of Abraham

  [Bible]

  The seed of Abraham is a biblical term for the descendants God promised to Abraham. In the Old Testament it refers to the people of Israel, descended through Isaac and Jacob. In the New Testament its meaning broadens to include Christ and those who believe in Christ.

• Arnon

  [Bible]

  The Arnon is a river that flows through a deep valley into the Dead Sea from the east. In the Old Testament it frequently appears as the boundary between Moab and the Amorites, and later between Moab and Israel (the tribe of Reuben).

• Book of Tobit

  [Bible]

  The Book of Tobit tells the story of Tobit, a Jew living in Nineveh during the Assyrian exile, and his son Tobias. The Catholic and Orthodox churches accept it as part of the Old Testament, while most Protestants classify it among the Apocrypha (books outside the canon).

• Aijalon

  [Bible]

  Aijalon is an Old Testament place name referring to a valley and a town northwest of Jerusalem, between the coastal plain and the hill country. It is best known as the place where Joshua cried out, "and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon."

• Biblical Archaeology

  [History]

  Biblical archaeology is a field of study that excavates and examines sites and artifacts from the lands and periods described in the Bible in order to illuminate the historical and cultural background of the biblical record. It began in the nineteenth century and took systematic shape in the twentieth.

• Epistle of Barnabas

  [History]

  The Epistle of Barnabas is an early Christian writing composed in Greek between the late first and early second centuries. It interprets the laws and institutions of the Old Testament as symbols pointing to Christ. It was not included in the New Testament canon.

• Sharezer

  [People]

  Sharezer is a son of the Assyrian king Sennacherib mentioned in the Old Testament. With his brother Adrammelech, he killed his father with the sword in a temple and then fled to the land of Ararat.