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• 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.

• Beth-shemesh

  [Bible]

  Beth-shemesh, meaning "house of the sun," is an Old Testament place name that refers chiefly to a priestly city on the western border of Judah. It was the first place the ark of the covenant reached when the Philistines sent it back, and it was also where Amaziah, king of Judah, was defeated by the northern kingdom of Israel.

• Beth-dagon

  [Bible]

  Beth-dagon, meaning "house (temple) of Dagon," is an Old Testament place name. It appears twice in the book of Joshua: once as a town of the tribe of Judah and once as a point on the border of the tribe of Asher.

• Jezreel (Son of Hosea)

  [People]

  Jezreel was the firstborn son of the prophet Hosea and his wife Gomer. His name, given by God himself, symbolizes both judgment on the royal house of Jehu in the northern kingdom of Israel and the restoration to come.

• Jehu (son of Hanani)

  [People]

  Jehu, the son of Hanani, was a prophet of the divided monarchy who announced the destruction of the house of Baasha, king of northern Israel, and rebuked Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, for helping Ahab.

• Chloe

  [People]

  Chloe is a woman mentioned only once in Scripture, in 1 Corinthians 1:11. Paul wrote that he had learned of contentions in the Corinthian church from "them which are of the house of Chloe."

• Micah (son of Mephibosheth)

  [People]

  Micah was the son of Mephibosheth (Merib-baal), the grandson of Saul. His name appears in 2 Samuel 9 and in the genealogies of 1 Chronicles 8 and 9, which show that the house of Saul and Jonathan continued through him.

• Bethphage

  [Bible]

  Bethphage was a village near the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem. The Synoptic Gospels present it as the place where Jesus Christ, just before entering Jerusalem, sent his disciples to bring him a donkey.

• Rimmon

  [Bible]

  Rimmon is the name of a god worshiped in Damascus, the capital of Aram. The name appears in 2 Kings 5, where Naaman, the Aramean commander who had been healed of leprosy, asks pardon for entering the house of Rimmon when he accompanies his king there to worship.

• Beth-peor

  [Bible]

  Beth-peor was a place in the land of Moab east of the Jordan River. Scripture records it as the site where Moses proclaimed the law of Deuteronomy and identifies the valley opposite it as the place of his burial.

• Mary, Mother of Mark

  [People]

  Mary, the mother of Mark, was a member of the Jerusalem church mentioned in Acts 12. She owned the house to which Peter went after his release from prison, where many people had gathered to pray.

• 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."

• Nisroch

  [Bible]

  In the Old Testament, Nisroch is the name of the god worshiped by the Assyrian king Sennacherib. According to the biblical account, Sennacherib was killed by two of his sons while worshiping in the temple of Nisroch.

• Sanctuary (Church Building)

  [Worship & Rites]

  A sanctuary is a building or space in which a congregation gathers for worship. Among a church's facilities, the largest space used for Sunday worship is often called the main sanctuary.

• Prayer Retreat Center (Kidowon)

  [Christian Life]

  A prayer retreat center, known in Korean as a kidowon, is a Protestant facility, usually built in the mountains or on the outskirts of a city, where people can devote themselves to prayer and fasting. Equipped with meeting halls and lodging, it is used for individual prayer and group retreats.

• Simon the Leper

  [People]

  Simon the Leper was a resident of Bethany in whose house Jesus was dining shortly before His Passion when a woman poured ointment on His head. He is mentioned by name only in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark.

• Zerubbabel

  [People]

  Zerubbabel was a descendant of the royal house of David who led the people of Judah home from the Babylonian exile. He served as governor of Judah during the Persian period and, together with the high priest Jeshua, led the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem.

• Ziba

  [People]

  Ziba was a servant of the house of Saul who appears in 2 Samuel. He told David about Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, and managed Mephibosheth's land. During Absalom's rebellion, he told David that his master Mephibosheth had betrayed the king.

• Ner

  [People]

  Ner was a Benjamite of the house of King Saul and the father of Abner, the commander of Saul's army. First Samuel identifies him as Saul's uncle, while 1 Chronicles records him as the father of Kish.

• Athaliah

  [People]

  Athaliah was a queen of Judah from the house of Ahab, king of northern Israel. She became the wife of Jehoram, king of Judah, and after the death of her son Ahaziah she killed the royal family and ruled Judah for about six years.