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• Remnant

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  The remnant is a biblical concept referring to a small group that survives God's judgment and tribulation and thereby carries on the line of the covenant people. It is prominent in the Old Testament prophetic books and is taken up in the New Testament by Paul.

• Chapters and Verses of the Bible

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  The chapters and verses of the Bible are a numbering system added to make biblical passages easier to locate and cite. The divisions were not part of the original texts; the chapter divisions are generally dated to the thirteenth century and the New Testament verse numbers to the sixteenth century.

• Demon

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  In the Bible, demons are evil spiritual beings that oppose God, torment people, and work behind idolatry and false teaching. They appear especially often in the New Testament Gospels.

• Hades

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  Hades is the biblical term for the place to which the dead go. It renders the Old Testament Hebrew word Sheol and the New Testament Greek word Hades.

• Tree of Life

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  The tree of life stood in the midst of the Garden of Eden in Genesis and symbolizes the life that God gives. Proverbs uses the phrase figuratively, and the tree reappears in the New Jerusalem in Revelation.

• Davidic Covenant

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  The Davidic covenant is God's promise, delivered to David through the prophet Nathan, to establish his house (dynasty) and throne forever. It forms an important foundation for Old Testament messianic expectation and for the New Testament understanding of Jesus.

• Day of the Lord

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  The Day of the Lord is an expression used by the Old Testament prophets for the time when God intervenes directly in history to bring about judgment and salvation. The New Testament takes it up as "the day of the Lord" and "the day of Christ," connecting it with the Second Coming and the Last Judgment.

• Suffering Servant

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  The Suffering Servant is the "servant of the Lord" in the "Servant Songs" of Isaiah, who suffers and bears the transgressions of others. The New Testament reads this servant in connection with Jesus Christ.

• Messianic Prophecy

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  Messianic prophecy refers to Old Testament passages understood to point to the anointed deliverer who was to come, the Messiah. The New Testament regards these prophecies as fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

• Mesopotamia

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  Mesopotamia is the region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and the homeland of Abraham. It is mentioned in both the Old and New Testaments.

• Feast of Unleavened Bread

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  The Feast of Unleavened Bread was a seven-day festival, beginning the day after Passover, during which Israel ate bread without leaven to commemorate the Exodus. In the New Testament it is named together with Passover, and Paul uses it as an illustration of the Christian life.

• Archangel

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  An archangel is a chief of the angels. In the Bible the term appears only in two New Testament passages, 1 Thessalonians 4:16 and Jude 1:9. Michael is the only being whom Scripture both names and calls an archangel.

• Water of Life

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  The water of life is a biblical expression that likens the life God gives to water. In the book of Revelation it is depicted as a river flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb in the New Jerusalem.

• Talent

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  The talent was the largest unit of weight in the Bible, used for gold, silver, and other metals. Through the Parable of the Talents in the New Testament, the word has also come to be widely used for the abilities or gifts that God entrusts to people.

• Sidon

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  Sidon was a Phoenician port city on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, corresponding to present-day Saida in Lebanon. In the Old Testament it appears as a neighbor to the north of Israel, and in the New Testament it stands for Gentile territory.

• Centurion

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  A centurion was a Roman army officer who commanded a unit of roughly one hundred soldiers. The New Testament mentions several centurions, including the centurion of Capernaum, whose faith Jesus commended; the centurion at the cross; and Cornelius.

• Tyre

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  Tyre was a Phoenician port city on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. In the Old Testament it appears as a neighboring kingdom that dealt with David and Solomon and as a target of the prophets' oracles of judgment. In the New Testament it is a Gentile region visited by Jesus and Paul.

• Frankincense

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  Frankincense is an aromatic substance made from the resin of trees native to southern Arabia and northeastern Africa. In the Old Testament it was used in the holy incense and the grain offering, and in the New Testament it appears as one of the gifts the wise men presented to the infant Jesus.

• Breaking of Bread

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  The breaking of bread is an expression derived from the Jewish mealtime custom of breaking bread by hand and sharing it. In the New Testament it refers to the meals of Jesus and to the communal meals and the Lord's Supper of the early church.

• Widow

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  A woman whose husband has died. The Old Testament law designated widows, along with the fatherless and the stranger, as people to be protected. In the New Testament, widows appear both as recipients of the early church's relief and care and as examples of faith.