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Luke 9:23
[Bible Verses]Luke 9:23 is the verse in which Jesus teaches that anyone who would follow him must deny himself and take up his cross daily: "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me" (KJV). It is widely cited as a core demand of discipleship, and the word "daily," found only in Luke's account, often draws particular attention.
Genesis 22:12-14
[Bible Verses]Genesis 22:12-14 is the passage in which God stops Abraham as he is about to offer Isaac and has him offer a ram in his son's place. It gives rise to the name "Jehovah-jireh" ("the LORD will provide"). The passage is frequently cited and preached as a text about the testing of faith and as a foreshadowing of substitutionary atonement.
Leviticus 9:22–23
[Bible Verses]In this scene Aaron, having completed his first sacrifices as high priest, lifts up his hands and blesses the people; he then blesses them again together with Moses, and the glory of the LORD appears. The passage is frequently cited as a biblical background for the benediction pronounced at the close of worship.
Ephod
[Bible]The ephod was a vest-like outer garment worn by the high priest in the Old Testament. Priests also wore a linen ephod, and the ephod served as a means of inquiring of God's will.
Immanuel
[Bible]Immanuel is a Hebrew name meaning "God is with us." It first appears as the name of a child given as a sign in Isaiah 7:14, and Matthew 1:23 applies it to the birth of Jesus.
Kiriath-jearim
[Bible]Kiriath-jearim was a town on the border between Judah and Benjamin. It is known as the place where the Ark of the Covenant, after its return from Philistia, remained in the house of Abinadab until David brought it to Jerusalem.
Sheba
[Bible]Sheba is the name of a land in Arabia and of its people in the Old Testament. It is portrayed as a wealthy, distant land to the south that traded in gold and frankincense. It is best known as the kingdom of the Queen of Sheba, who visited Solomon.
Moresheth
[Bible]Moresheth was a town in southwestern Judah, identified in Scripture as the hometown of the prophet Micah. Micah 1:1 and Jeremiah 26:18 refer to him as "Micah the Morasthite."
Redemptive History
[Doctrine & Theology]Redemptive history refers both to the theological perspective that reads the whole of Scripture as a single history in which God saves humanity and the world fallen into sin, and to the history that this perspective describes.
Bithiah
[People]Bithiah is a woman mentioned once, as "the daughter of Pharaoh," in the genealogy of the tribe of Judah in 1 Chronicles 4. She was the wife of Mered. Jewish tradition sometimes identifies her with the daughter of Pharaoh who rescued the infant Moses.
Ephah
[Bible]The ephah is an Old Testament dry measure of volume used for grain and flour. It appears both in sacrificial regulations and in everyday reckonings of grain, and the prophets condemned the falsified ephah as a symbol of injustice.
Deposition (Church Discipline)
[Organization & Polity]Deposition is a form of church discipline in which an officer such as a minister, elder, or deacon is stripped of the office itself. It is distinct from excommunication, which also removes church membership.
Shofar
[Bible]The shofar is an ancient Israelite trumpet made from the horn of an animal such as a ram. In the Old Testament it was used to proclaim feasts and the Jubilee, to signal in war, to mark the enthronement of kings, and in worship. The New Korean Revised Version usually renders it as "trumpet."
Seir
[Bible]Seir is an Old Testament place name for the mountainous region south of the Dead Sea. Because Esau and his descendants, the Edomites, lived there, Scripture often uses the name as a synonym for Edom.
Liturgy of the Hours
[Worship & Rites]The Liturgy of the Hours, also known as the Divine Office, is the public prayer of the church in which psalms, canticles, Scripture readings, and prayers are offered at fixed times of the day. The term is used chiefly in the Catholic Church, and similar traditions exist in the Anglican and Lutheran churches.
Imperial Cult
[History]The imperial cult was the practice in the ancient Roman Empire of honoring the emperor, living or deceased, as a god and offering sacrifices to him. Early Christians who refused to take part were persecuted.
Suspension (Church Discipline)
[Organization & Polity]Suspension is a form of church discipline in which an officer such as a pastor, elder, or deacon retains the office itself but is barred from performing its duties, either for a set period or indefinitely.
Heshbon
[Bible]Heshbon was a city on the plateau east of the Jordan River that served as the royal city of Sihon, king of the Amorites, at the time of the Exodus. After Israel captured it, the city was allotted to the tribe of Reuben, and in the later prophetic books it appears as a Moabite city.
Jeshimon
[Bible]Jeshimon is a Hebrew word meaning "wasteland." In 1 Samuel it serves as a place name for the wilderness region of southern Judah where David hid while fleeing from Saul.
Genesis 39
[Bible]Genesis 39 tells how Joseph, sold as a slave into the house of Potiphar, captain of the Egyptian guard, refuses the advances of his master's wife, is falsely accused, and is put in prison; yet because the LORD is with him, he prospers even in prison.