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1 Chronicles 19
[Bible]1 Chronicles 19 records a war that began when Hanun, king of the Ammonites, humiliated the envoys David had sent to console him. It recounts how Joab and David defeated the Ammonites and the Aramean coalition that came to their aid.
Beeri
[People]Beeri is an Old Testament figure named only in Hosea 1:1 as the father of the prophet Hosea. Scripture records nothing else about his life.
El-paran
[Bible]El-paran is a place name that occurs only once in the Bible, in Genesis 14:6. It is recorded as the southernmost point reached by the coalition of Chedorlaomer as it struck the Horites of Mount Seir, and it lay at the edge of the Wilderness of Paran.
Arabah
[Bible]Arabah is a Hebrew place name meaning "dry land" or "plain." In the Bible it refers to the long lowland that runs south from the Sea of Galilee through the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba.
Brook Cherith
[Bible]The Brook Cherith is a brook near the Jordan River where the prophet Elijah hid at God's command when a drought began during the reign of King Ahab of the northern kingdom of Israel. There he was sustained by food that ravens brought him. The account appears in 1 Kings 17.
Tabrimmon
[People]Tabrimmon is a biblical figure named once, in 1 Kings 15:18, as the son of Hezion and the father of Ben-hadad, king of Aram. He belonged to the Aramean royal house centered at Damascus.
Aroer
[Bible]Aroer is a place name in the Old Testament. Several towns bore this name; the one mentioned most often lay on the edge of the Arnon Valley east of the Jordan River and is cited as a boundary between Israel and Moab.
Genesis 26
[Bible]Genesis 26 tells how Isaac stays in Gerar during a famine, receives God's promise anew, and, after disputes over wells, makes a covenant with Abimelech, king of the Philistines.
Tirzah
[Bible]Tirzah was a city in the northern hill country of Samaria in ancient Israel. The household of Jeroboam resided there, and it served as the royal capital of the kings of the northern kingdom of Israel until Omri built Samaria.
Megiddo
[Bible]Megiddo was an ancient city on the edge of the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel. The Old Testament presents it as the site of several battles, and the name "Armageddon" in Revelation 16:16 is commonly understood to derive from it.
1 Kings 18:21
[Bible Verses]These are the words Elijah spoke on Mount Carmel, demanding that the people of Israel, who were wavering between Baal and the LORD, make a clear choice for God. The verse is frequently cited as a call to decisive faith and as a warning against syncretism.
Hellenism
[History]Hellenism refers both to the spread of Greek language and culture throughout the eastern Mediterranean and western Asia following the eastern campaigns of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC, where they blended with local cultures, and to the era in which this took place.
2 Samuel 4
[Bible]2 Samuel 4 recounts how Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, is murdered by his captains Rechab and Baanah, and how David, upon receiving his head, has the two men executed.
Proverbs 28
[Bible]Proverbs 28 belongs to the collection of Solomon's proverbs compiled by the men of Hezekiah. Its 28 verses are brief sayings that contrast the righteous and the wicked, the poor and the rich, and rulers and the law.
Isaiah 8
[Bible]Isaiah 8 uses the name of Isaiah's son, Maher-shalal-hash-baz, to foretell the fall of Aram and the northern kingdom of Israel. It announces both the Assyrian invasion and the assurance that "God is with us." The chapter closes with a warning not to seek those who have familiar spirits but to follow the law and the testimony.
Isaiah 45:9
[Bible Verses]Isaiah 45:9 is a verse in the Book of Isaiah that uses the image of the potter and the clay to declare that the creature cannot contend with the Creator. Because Paul uses a similar analogy in Romans 9, the verse is frequently cited in discussions of divine sovereignty and predestination.
Naaman
[People]Naaman was the commander of the army of Aram described in 2 Kings 5. Afflicted with leprosy, he was healed after washing seven times in the Jordan River as the prophet Elisha instructed. Jesus refers to him in Luke 4:27.
Samaria
[Bible]Samaria was the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel in the Old Testament; in the New Testament period, the name refers to the region lying between Judea and Galilee.
Hazor
[Bible]Hazor was a major Canaanite city north of the Sea of Galilee. It appears in Scripture in connection with Joshua's northern conquest, the war in the time of Deborah, and Solomon's building of cities.
Targum
[Bible]The Targum is a body of Jewish literature that translates and paraphrases the Hebrew Old Testament into Aramaic. It arose from the post-exilic synagogue practice of reading the Hebrew text aloud and then rendering it orally into Aramaic.