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• Ten Commandments

  [Worship & Rites]

  The Ten Commandments are the ten commands recorded in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 of the Old Testament, which God is said to have given to Israel at Mount Sinai. In Korean Protestant churches they are used, together with the Apostles' Creed and the Lord's Prayer, as core content for basic instruction in the faith.

• Resurrection

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Resurrection refers both to the event in which Jesus Christ, having died on the cross, rose again, and to the Christian belief that on the last day the dead will be raised bodily.

• Baptism by Sprinkling and by Immersion

  [Controversies]

  A debate over whether the biblical mode of baptism is sprinkling or pouring water on the head or submerging the whole body in water. In Korean Protestant usage, the same Greek word is rendered by two different terms: Presbyterians, Methodists, and others use a term meaning a rite of washing, while Baptists and others use a term meaning a rite of immersion.

• Gospel of Luke

  [Bible]

  The Gospel of Luke is the third book of the New Testament and one of the four Gospels, recording the life of Jesus Christ from his birth to his ascension. It is regarded as the first volume of a two-part work, continued in the Acts of the Apostles by the same author.

• Luke 23:34

  [Bible Verses]

  Luke 23:34 records the prayer Jesus offered on the cross for those who were crucifying him: "Father, forgive them." It is traditionally counted as the first of the Seven Last Words from the Cross. The verse also raises a textual question, because the prayer is absent from some early manuscripts.

• James 4:2–3

  [Bible Verses]

  A passage in James 4 that rebukes quarrels within the community as arising from selfish desire and gives two reasons why believers do not receive what they want: they do not ask, or they ask with wrong motives. It is frequently cited in discussions of answered prayer and the motives behind prayer.

• Emmaus

  [Bible]

  Emmaus was a village near Jerusalem where the risen Jesus walked with two disciples, who recognized Him when He broke bread at the table. The village appears in Luke 24, and its exact location remains unidentified.

• Tent of Meeting

  [Bible]

  The Tent of Meeting is the tent where God met with Moses and Israel and spoke to them. In the Old Testament the term is used chiefly as another name for the tabernacle.

• Lord's Day

  [Bible]

  A New Testament expression that, in Revelation 1:10, refers to the day on which Christians gathered for worship and, in the Epistles, to the last day, when Christ will return to judge.

• Letter of Aristeas

  [History]

  The Letter of Aristeas is an ancient Jewish writing that, presented as the work of a courtier of the Egyptian king, recounts how the Pentateuch was translated into Greek at Alexandria by seventy-two Jewish elders. It contains the story from which the name Septuagint derives.

• Brook Besor

  [Bible]

  The Brook Besor is a wadi in southern Judah mentioned in 1 Samuel 30. When David pursued the Amalekites, two hundred of his men were too exhausted to cross it and stayed behind there.

• Longinus

  [People]

  Longinus is the name that later tradition gave to the soldier who pierced Jesus' side with a spear at the crucifixion, or to the centurion who confessed, "Truly this man was the Son of God." The name does not appear in the Bible.

• Zebah and Zalmunna

  [People]

  Zebah and Zalmunna were two kings of Midian who invaded Israel in the time of the judge Gideon. In Judges 8 they are captured and put to death by Gideon, and in Psalm 83 they are cited as an example of the end that befalls the enemies of God.

• Oreb and Zeeb

  [People]

  Oreb and Zeeb were two princes (commanders) of Midian who were captured and killed by the men of Ephraim when Gideon defeated the Midianites during the period of the judges. They appear in Judges 7–8 and Psalm 83.

• Song of Lamech

  [Bible]

  The Song of Lamech is a short poem in Genesis 4:23–24 in which Lamech, a descendant of Cain, tells his two wives that he has killed a man and boasts that his vengeance will far exceed Cain's.

• Presence of God

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The presence of God refers to God's being with a particular place, person, or community. Denominations differ in their emphases on how this presence is experienced and understood in worship and prayer.

• Genesis 41

  [Bible]

  Genesis 41 is the chapter of Genesis in which Joseph interprets Pharaoh's two dreams as seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine, becomes ruler over Egypt, and stores up grain.

• 1 Kings 20

  [Bible]

  The account of Ahab, king of the northern kingdom of Israel, defeating Ben-hadad, king of Aram, in two battles, at Samaria and at Aphek. When Ahab makes a covenant with the surrendered Ben-hadad and lets him go, a prophet rebukes him.

• Dibri

  [People]

  Dibri is a man of the tribe of Dan who is named once in the Old Testament, in the book of Leviticus. His daughter Shelomith was the mother of the man who blasphemed the name of God in the wilderness and was stoned to death.

• Hirah

  [People]

  Hirah is an Adullamite in Genesis 38 and the friend of Judah, the son of Jacob. At Judah's request he took a young goat to recover the pledge Judah had left with a woman, but he could not find her.