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• Bethlehem

  [Bible]

  Bethlehem is a biblical town in the hill country of Judah, south of Jerusalem. It was the hometown of David, and the New Testament records it as the birthplace of Jesus. Its name is commonly interpreted as "house of bread."

• Barzillai (the Meholathite)

  [People]

  Barzillai the Meholathite was the father of Adriel, who married Merab, the eldest daughter of Saul. He is an Old Testament figure named only once, in 2 Samuel 21:8, and is a different person from Barzillai the Gileadite, who aided David.

• Bahurim

  [Bible]

  Bahurim was a village in the territory of Benjamin east of Jerusalem. In 2 Samuel and 1 Kings it appears as the setting of several events from the time of David.

• Amminadab

  [People]

  Amminadab was a man of the tribe of Judah, the son of Ram and the father of Nahshon and Elisheba. He was the father-in-law of Aaron, and his name appears in the genealogies of David and of Jesus Christ.

• 1 Samuel 19

  [Bible]

  1 Samuel 19 recounts how Jonathan and Michal help David when Saul tries to kill him, and how the messengers Saul sends to seize David, who has fled to Samuel, and finally Saul himself, begin to prophesy.

• Adriel

  [People]

  Adriel was an Israelite of the time of King Saul, the son of Barzillai the Meholathite. He married Merab, Saul's elder daughter, who had been promised to David.

• Palti

  [People]

  Palti, the son of Laish, was the man to whom King Saul gave his daughter Michal, David's wife, in marriage. In 2 Samuel he is also called Paltiel.

• 1 Samuel 18

  [Bible]

  1 Samuel 18 recounts how Jonathan comes to love David after his victory over Goliath and makes a covenant with him; how Saul, seeing the people praise David, grows jealous and afraid of him and seeks to harm him; and how Saul ultimately gives his daughter Michal to David as his wife.

• Choi Ja-shil

  [People]

  Choi Ja-shil (1915–1989) was a Korean Pentecostal woman minister. In 1958, together with David Yonggi Cho, who later became her son-in-law, she founded the Daejo-dong tent church, which became today's Yoido Full Gospel Church.

• Amasa

  [People]

  Amasa was a military commander in the time of David. He commanded Absalom's army during Absalom's rebellion and was later appointed commander by David, but he was killed by his cousin Joab.

• Herodias and Salome

  [People]

  Herodias was the wife of the tetrarch Herod Antipas. Her daughter danced at a banquet and then asked for the head of John the Baptist. The daughter's name, "Salome," comes not from the Bible but from the writings of Josephus.

• Church Planting by Division

  [Organization & Polity]

  The founding of a new, independent church by an existing church (the "mother church"), which sends out some of its members, ministers, and part of its finances. Also called "daughter-church planting," it is distinct from a "church split," in which a congregation divides through conflict.

• David Yonggi Cho

  [People]

  David Yonggi Cho (1936–2021) was a Pentecostal pastor. He founded Yoido Full Gospel Church, which began in 1958 as a tent church in Daejo-dong, Seoul, and built it into the largest church in the world.

• Daughter of Zion

  [Bible]

  The Daughter of Zion is a poetic Old Testament expression that personifies Jerusalem and its inhabitants as a woman. It appears frequently in the Prophets and in Lamentations, and the New Testament quotes the title in its accounts of Jesus' entry into Jerusalem.

• Raising of Jairus's Daughter

  [Bible]

  The raising of Jairus's daughter is the miracle in which Jesus restored to life the twelve-year-old daughter of Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue, after she had died. The account appears in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.

• Naamah (Daughter of Lamech)

  [People]

  Naamah is a woman named in the genealogy of Cain in Genesis 4. She was the daughter of Lamech and Zillah and the sister of Tubal-cain. The Bible mentions her by name only once, in Genesis 4:22.

• Serah (Daughter of Asher)

  [People]

  Serah was the daughter of Asher, son of Jacob. She is named only in the genealogies of Genesis 46, Numbers 26, and 1 Chronicles 7, and later Jewish tradition added many stories about her.

• Pharaoh's Daughter

  [People]

  Pharaoh's daughter is the Egyptian princess in Exodus 2 who drew the infant Moses out from among the reeds of the Nile and raised him as her own son. Scripture does not give her name.

• Jephthah's Daughter

  [People]

  Jephthah's daughter was the only child of the judge Jephthah, whose story appears in Judges 11. She was given up because of a vow her father made before going to war. Scripture does not record her name.

• Rizpah

  [People]

  Rizpah was the daughter of Aiah and a concubine of King Saul. She is known from 2 Samuel 21 for guarding the bodies of her two executed sons and of Saul's grandsons from the beginning of harvest until rain fell.