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• Straight Street

  Straight Street (Korean 직가, 直街) is a street within the city of Damascus mentioned in Acts 9:11. The house of Judas, where Saul stayed immediately after his conversion, stood on this street, and Ananias was sent there.

• Psalm 79

  Psalm 79 is a communal lament bearing the superscription "A Psalm of Asaph." It lays before God the devastation wrought when the nations trampled Jerusalem and the temple, and it asks for forgiveness of sins, deliverance, and judgment on the enemies.

• Lamentations 1

  Lamentations 1 is a lament that portrays fallen Jerusalem as a widow left alone and mourns her devastation. Its 22 verses follow the order of the Hebrew alphabet, and the chapter confesses that the suffering came because of the people's sin.

• Joel 1

  The first chapter of the Book of Joel describes a locust plague and drought that have devastated the land of Judah, calls the people and priests to lament, fast, and gather in solemn assembly, and proclaims that "the day of the LORD" is at hand.

• Barabbas

  Barabbas was the prisoner whom Pontius Pilate, during the trial of Jesus, offered for release in keeping with the Passover custom. All four Gospels report that the crowd demanded his release instead of Jesus' and that he was set free.

• Luke 9:23

  A verse in which Jesus says that anyone who would follow him must deny himself and take up his cross daily. It is widely cited as a core demand of discipleship, and the word "daily," found only in Luke's version, often draws particular attention.

• Phaltiel

  Phaltiel was the second husband of Michal, the daughter of Saul. Saul took Michal from David and gave her to him; according to 2 Samuel, she was later taken from him at David's demand, and he followed her, weeping.

• Aretas

  Aretas was a king of Nabataea (northern Arabia) whose name appears in the passage where the apostle Paul recalls a crisis he faced in Damascus. Scholars usually identify him as Aretas IV.

• Rabshakeh

  Rabshakeh was a high-ranking official whom Sennacherib, king of Assyria, sent to Hezekiah, king of Judah. He is known for a speech before the walls of Jerusalem in which he demanded that the people of Judah surrender and mocked the LORD.

• Hampton Court Conference

  The Hampton Court Conference was a meeting held in January 1604 at Hampton Court Palace, where King James I of England summoned bishops of the Church of England and Puritan representatives to discuss demands for church reform. It led to the translation of the King James Bible.

• Battle of Qarqar

  The Battle of Qarqar was fought in 853 BC at Qarqar, near the Orontes River in Syria, between the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III and a coalition of twelve kings that included Damascus, Hamath, and Israel. Ahab, king of the northern kingdom of Israel, is recorded as a participant.

• Zobah

  Zobah was an Aramean kingdom mentioned in the Old Testament. Located in the region of Syria north of Damascus, it fought against Israel during the reigns of Saul and David. Its king was Hadadezer, who was defeated by David.

• Abilene

  Abilene is a place name that appears once in Scripture, in Luke 3:1. It was a small territory in the Anti-Lebanon mountains northwest of Damascus. According to Luke, Lysanias was its tetrarch when John the Baptist began his ministry.

• Genesis 34

  Genesis 34 records how, after Shechem violated Jacob's daughter Dinah, Simeon and Levi used a deceitful demand for circumcision to kill the men of the city of Shechem, after which their brothers plundered the city.

• Josh McDowell

  Josh McDowell (born 1939) is an American evangelical Christian apologist and evangelist. He became widely known through his 1972 book Evidence That Demands a Verdict and lectured at universities around the world as a speaker with Campus Crusade for Christ.

• Diet of Worms

  The Diet of Worms was an imperial diet convened in 1521 by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in Worms, Germany. At this assembly Martin Luther refused the demand to recant his writings, after which the Edict of Worms was issued, placing Luther outside the protection of the law.

• 1 Samuel 8

  1 Samuel 8 is the chapter in which, after Samuel's sons become corrupt, the elders of Israel demand a king "like all the nations." Samuel warns them about the manner of the king, and the LORD then grants their request.

• Hussites

  The Hussites were the followers of Jan Hus, the Bohemian reformer burned at the stake in 1415, and the movement they formed. In fifteenth-century Bohemia they opposed the Roman Church, demanding freedom of preaching and a Communion in which the laity receive both the bread and the cup.

• Psalm 80

  Psalm 80 is a psalm of Asaph and a communal lament. Comparing Israel to a vine brought out of Egypt and planted, it implores God, the "Shepherd of Israel," to restore His devastated people.

• Isaiah 17

  Isaiah 17 is a chapter within the oracles against the nations in the Book of Isaiah. It foretells the destruction of Damascus (Aram) and Ephraim (the northern kingdom of Israel) and declares that even amid this judgment there will be a remnant and people who look to God.