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Book of Judith
[Bible]The Book of Judith is a sixteen-chapter book that tells how the widow Judith saved Israel by killing the enemy general Holofernes. The Catholic and Orthodox churches include it in the Old Testament, while Protestants classify it among the Apocrypha, outside the canon.
Neriah
[People]Neriah is a figure in the Old Testament Book of Jeremiah. He was the son of Maaseiah and the father of Baruch, Jeremiah's scribe, and of Seraiah, an official of King Zedekiah.
Purah
[People]Purah was Gideon's servant in the Old Testament Book of Judges. On the night before the battle against Midian, he went down with Gideon close to the enemy camp and overheard what the soldiers there were saying (Judges 7:10-11).
Hachaliah
[People]Hachaliah is a figure in the Old Testament Book of Nehemiah who is named only as the father of Nehemiah, governor of Judah. Scripture records nothing about his life or deeds.
Bible
[Doctrine & Theology]The Bible is the collection of books that Christianity accepts as Scripture recording God's revelation. It is also called the Holy Scriptures. The Protestant Bible consists of sixty-six books: thirty-nine in the Old Testament and twenty-seven in the New Testament.
Adam
[People]Adam is the first human being in the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament. According to the biblical account, God formed him from the dust of the ground, and he was expelled from the Garden of Eden after he and his wife Eve ate the forbidden fruit.
Naomi
[People]Naomi is a woman from Bethlehem who appears in the Old Testament Book of Ruth. After losing her husband and two sons in Moab, she returned to her homeland with her daughter-in-law Ruth, and through her grandson Obed her story is linked to the house of David.
Dead Sea Scrolls
[Bible]The Dead Sea Scrolls are ancient Jewish documents discovered beginning in 1947 in caves around Qumran, northwest of the Dead Sea. They include the oldest extant Hebrew manuscripts of the Old Testament and are an important resource for the study of the biblical text.
Dagon
[Bible]Dagon is a god worshiped by the Philistines in the Old Testament. He appears in the story of Samson and in the account of the Ark of the Covenant being placed in the temple of Dagon at Ashdod.
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.
Abinadab
[People]Abinadab was a man of Kiriath-jearim in the Old Testament. Scripture records that he received the ark of the covenant into his house after the Philistines returned it, and that it remained there for a long time. Several other people of the same name also appear in the Bible.
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.
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.