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Rechabites
[Bible]The Rechabites were the descendants of Jehonadab (Jonadab) the son of Rechab. In obedience to their ancestor's command, they drank no wine, built no houses, and lived in tents. They appear in Jeremiah 35 as an example of obedience.
Table of Nations
[Bible]The Table of Nations is the list of the descendants of Noah's three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, recorded in Genesis 10. Arranged in genealogical form, the passage describes how the various peoples spread across the earth after the Flood.
Calebites
[Bible]The Calebites were the descendants of Caleb the son of Jephunneh, or the group belonging to his house. The term is used in 1 Samuel 25 to introduce Nabal, and the Calebites are portrayed as living in the region of Hebron in southern Judah.
Table of Nations
[Bible]The Table of Nations is the genealogy of the descendants of Noah's three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, recorded in Genesis 10. It sets out how humanity divided and spread into many peoples and nations after the Flood. It is also called the List of Nations.
Anakim
[Bible]The Anakim were a people of great stature who lived in the southern hill country of Canaan, centered on Hebron, before the Israelite conquest. After the report of the twelve spies, they became the adversaries Israel feared.
Tribe of Benjamin
[Bible]The tribe of Benjamin was one of the tribes of Israel, made up of the descendants of Benjamin, the youngest son of Jacob. Israel's first king, Saul, and the apostle Paul both came from this tribe.
Tribe of Dan
[Bible]The tribe of Dan was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, made up of the descendants of Dan, the son of Jacob. Unable to hold the territory it was first allotted, it migrated north and settled there.
Tribe of Judah
[Bible]The tribe of Judah was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, made up of the descendants of Judah, the fourth son of Jacob and Leah. It was the central tribe of the Davidic royal house and of the southern kingdom of Judah, and the New Testament presents Jesus as a descendant of this tribe.
Kingdom of Judah
[Bible]The Kingdom of Judah, usually called simply "Judah" in the Bible, was the southern kingdom, with Jerusalem as its capital, that remained when the kingdom of Israel divided after Solomon's death. Descendants of David held its throne until its fall to Babylon.
Shammai (son of Onam)
[People]Shammai was a member of the Jerahmeelite clan of the tribe of Judah, the son of Onam and the father of Nadab and Abishur. His name appears only in the genealogy of 1 Chronicles 2.
Wilderness of Judah
[Bible]The Wilderness of Judah is an arid region stretching from the eastern slopes of the Judean hill country down to the Dead Sea. Scripture presents it as the place where David hid from Saul and where John the Baptist proclaimed repentance.
Shebuel
[People]Shebuel was a Levite in the time of David and the chief among the descendants of Gershom, the son of Moses. First Chronicles records him as the officer in charge of the temple treasuries.
Wilderness of Judea
[Bible]The Wilderness of Judea is the arid land that descends east of Jerusalem and the hill country of Judah toward the Dead Sea and the Jordan Valley. Scripture presents it as the place where David hid from Saul and where John the Baptist preached repentance.
Division of Abijah
[Bible]The division of Abijah was the eighth of the twenty-four priestly divisions established in the time of David for rotating temple service. In the Gospel of Luke, Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist, is introduced as a priest belonging to this division.
Shechaniah
[People]Shechaniah was the son of Jehiel, of the descendants of Elam, in the time of Ezra. Repenting of marriages to foreign women, he proposed to Ezra that the people make a covenant to put away their foreign wives and the children born to them (Ezra 10:2–4).
Levites
[Bible]The Levites were members of the Israelite tribe descended from Levi, the son of Jacob. Rather than receiving land as an inheritance, they were set apart for the work of the tabernacle and the temple. Among them, the descendants of Aaron became priests.
Amalek
[Bible]Amalek was an ancient nomadic people whom the Bible presents as descendants of Esau. Because they attacked Israel shortly after the Exodus, the Amalekites are remembered throughout the Old Testament as Israel's archetypal enemy.
Ammon
[Bible]Ammon was a people whom the Bible describes as the descendants of Ben-ammi, the son of Lot. Living east of the Jordan River, the Ammonites were a neighboring nation related to Israel by kinship, yet frequently in conflict with it.
Zuriel
[People]Zuriel is a Levite mentioned once in the Book of Numbers. The son of Abihail, he was the chief of the Merarite families during the wilderness period. The descendants of Merari camped on the north side of the tabernacle.
Jonathan (Son of Shimeah)
[People]Jonathan was the son of Shimeah (Shammah), David's older brother, and thus David's nephew. He is recorded as having killed a giant with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot during a battle against the Philistines at Gath.