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Jobab (King of Madon)
[People]Jobab was king of Madon, a city in northern Canaan. Summoned by Jabin king of Hazor, he joined the northern coalition and was defeated by the Israelites under Joshua at the waters of Merom (Joshua 11:1; 12:19).
Korean Bible Translation
[History]Korean Bible translation is the history of rendering the Bible into Korean, a work that began in Manchuria and Japan in the late nineteenth century. The first complete translation of both the Old and New Testaments, the Syeonggyeong Jeonseo, appeared in 1911. This translation was carried forward in the Revised Version, the Korean Revised Version, and the New Korean Revised Version.
Zionism
[History]Zionism is a political and national movement that arose in Europe in the late nineteenth century, seeking to establish a Jewish national state in Palestine (Zion), the land of the Jewish people's ancestors. It led to the founding of the State of Israel in 1948.
Minjung Church
[Organization & Polity]A minjung church is a church that regards workers, the urban poor, and other socially marginalized people as the "minjung" (the people) and makes standing with them, in the places where they live, the center of its mission. Minjung churches took shape in South Korea in the 1970s and 1980s alongside minjung theology.
Missional Church
[History]The missional church is an ecclesiology, and a movement grounded in it, that regards the church as a community sent into the world. It understands mission not as one of the church's many activities but as its very essence. The term gained wide currency through a book published in North America in 1998.
Sunday School Movement
[History]The Sunday school movement was a church education movement that spread Sunday schools, which teach the Bible to children and adults on the Lord's Day. In Korea, the movement centered on the Korea Sunday School Association, organized in 1922.
Salvation Army Red Kettle
[History]The Salvation Army Red Kettle is a year-end street fundraising campaign conducted by the Salvation Army, a Protestant denomination. It began in San Francisco in 1891; in Korea, it was first held in Seoul in December 1928.
Christian Medical Fellowship Korea
[Institutions]Christian Medical Fellowship Korea (CMF) is an interdenominational Protestant faith movement of medical professionals, including physicians, dentists, and practitioners of Korean medicine, together with university students in medical fields. It began at a national student retreat in 1980 and was formally established under its Korean name, Hanguk Nugahoe (Korean Luke Society), in 1982.
Ezekiel 20
[Bible]In Ezekiel 20, God answers the elders of Israel who have come to inquire of him by recounting Israel's history of rebellion in Egypt, in the wilderness, and in Canaan, and declares that he will gather his scattered people, judge them, and restore them.
Revelation 20:4–6
[Bible Verses]Revelation 20:4–6 is the passage describing how the martyrs and those who had not worshiped the beast "lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." It is the only text in Scripture that directly mentions the millennium, and it stands at the center of the eschatological debate among premillennialism, amillennialism, and postmillennialism.
Exodus 25:2
[Bible Verses]Exodus 25:2 is the verse in which God, through Moses, asks Israel for offerings to build the tabernacle and directs that offerings be received only from those who give willingly from the heart. It is frequently cited as a basis for the principle that giving should be voluntary, especially in building-fund appeals and church dedication sermons.
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."
Ammon
[Bible]Ammon was a people whom the Bible describes as the descendants of Ben-ammi, the son of Lot. Living east of the Jordan River, the Ammonites were a neighboring nation related to Israel by kinship, yet frequently in conflict with it.
Kenites
[Bible]The Kenites were a nomadic people of the Old Testament. Scripture records that Moses' father-in-law belonged to this people, and through this connection they lived alongside Israel and maintained friendly relations with the Israelites.
Divination
[Bible]Divination is the attempt to discover the future or the divine will through omens, instruments, or mediums. The Old Testament law forbids it, and the New Testament maintains the same position.
Joppa
[Bible]Joppa was a port city on the Mediterranean coast. In the Old Testament it was the port through which timber for the Temple arrived and the place where Jonah boarded a ship; in the New Testament it was where Peter raised Tabitha from the dead and received the vision that opened the way for the mission to the Gentiles.
Remnant
[Bible]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.
Jezreel
[Bible]Jezreel is a Hebrew place name meaning "God sows." It refers to a city in the northern kingdom of Israel and to the broad valley around it. The city held a royal palace of the house of Ahab and was the setting of the revolt led by Jehu. Jezreel is also the name of a son of the prophet Hosea.
Nob
[Bible]Nob was a town in the territory of Benjamin where priests lived during the reign of Saul. There David received the showbread and the sword of Goliath, and there the priests were massacred at Saul's command.
Mount Tabor
[Bible]Mount Tabor is a mountain in the Galilee region of northern Israel, rising northeast of the Jezreel Valley. In the Old Testament it appears as the battleground of Deborah and Barak, and church tradition has long identified it as the Mount of Transfiguration.