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Genesis 24
[Bible]Genesis 24 recounts how Abraham sends his aged servant to his kindred in his homeland to find a wife for his son Isaac, and how the servant meets Rebekah at a well and brings her back to marry Isaac.
1 Samuel 16
[Bible]A chapter of 1 Samuel recounting how Samuel anoints David, the youngest son of Jesse, in Bethlehem, and how David comes to serve Saul, from whom the Spirit of the LORD has departed, by playing the harp.
2 Samuel 13
[Bible]2 Samuel 13 recounts how Amnon, David's firstborn son, violates his half-sister Tamar, and how Tamar's brother Absalom kills Amnon two years later and flees to Geshur.
1 Kings 12
[Bible]1 Kings 12 is the chapter in which Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, rejects the people's request, causing Israel to divide into the southern kingdom of Judah and the northern kingdom of Israel, and in which Jeroboam sets up golden calves at Bethel and Dan.
2 Kings 21
[Bible]2 Kings 21 recounts the fifty-five-year reign of Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, who revived idolatry in Judah, and the judgment announced against Jerusalem and Judah. It also recounts the reign of his son Amon, who was killed by his servants after two years.
Psalm 3
[Bible]Psalm 3 is an eight-verse prayer presented as a psalm David composed when he fled from his son Absalom. Facing many enemies, the psalmist confesses the LORD as his shield and asks for deliverance.
Perichoresis
[Doctrine & Theology]Perichoresis is a theological term expressing that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, while distinct from one another, dwell in one another and exist as one God. It is commonly rendered in English as "mutual indwelling."
Jeremiah 19
[Bible]Jeremiah 19 is the chapter in which Jeremiah buys a potter's earthen bottle and breaks it in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, proclaiming that Jerusalem will be destroyed beyond repair because of its idolatry and child sacrifice.
Ezekiel 2
[Bible]Ezekiel 2 recounts Ezekiel's call to be a prophet. God addresses him as "son of man," sends him to the rebellious children of Israel, and holds out to him a scroll written with lamentations, mourning, and woe.
Hosea 11
[Bible]Hosea 11 portrays God's love through the image of a father who raised Israel as a young son. Though Israel turns away, God confesses a compassion that cannot finally abandon them: "How shall I give thee up?"
Revelation 12
[Bible]Revelation 12 contains the vision of a woman clothed with the sun who gives birth to a son, a great red dragon who seeks to harm the child and the woman, and a war in heaven between Michael and the dragon, in which the dragon is cast down to the earth.
Gadi
[People]Gadi was the father of Menahem, king of the northern kingdom of Israel. He appears only twice, both times in 2 Kings 15, where his son is introduced as "Menahem the son of Gadi."
Hirah
[People]Hirah is an Adullamite in Genesis 38 and the friend of Judah, the son of Jacob. At Judah's request he took a young goat to recover the pledge Judah had left with a woman, but he could not find her.
Shelomoth
[People]Shelomoth was a Levite of David's time and a descendant of Eliezer, the son of Moses. With his brothers, he was in charge of the treasuries of the dedicated things that David and the military commanders had set apart (1 Chronicles 26).
Apostles' Creed
[Worship & Rites]The Apostles' Creed is a confession of faith of the Western church that briefly summarizes belief in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In Korea, many Protestant churches recite it together in Sunday worship.
Epiphany
[Feasts & Seasons]Epiphany is a Christian feast, observed on January 6, that commemorates the manifestation of Jesus Christ to the world as the Son of God.
Jesus Christ
[Doctrine & Theology]Jesus Christ is the central figure of the Christian faith. Christianity confesses Jesus of Nazareth, who ministered in first-century Judea and was crucified, as the Messiah and the Son of God, and calls him by this name.
Trinity
[Doctrine & Theology]The Trinity is the central Christian doctrine that God is one in essence and exists in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It is confessed in common by Protestant, Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox churches.
Christian Ethics Movement of Korea
[Institutions]The Christian Ethics Movement of Korea (Giyunsil) is an interdenominational Christian civic organization founded in 1987 by Protestant scholars and intellectuals, including Son Bong-ho. It advocates ethical living among Christians and the restoration of the church's public trust.
Arianism
[Heresies & Cults]Arianism is the teaching advanced by Arius of Alexandria in the fourth century. It regards Christ the Son not as God of the same essence as the Father but as the first and highest creature made by God. It was condemned at the Council of Nicaea in 325.