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• Psalm 37:7

  [Bible Verses]

  A verse urging believers not to fret when the wicked prosper, but to be still before God and wait patiently for him. It is often quoted to encourage patience amid injustice and suffering.

• Benaiah

  [People]

  Benaiah was a warrior who commanded King David's bodyguard and, under King Solomon, succeeded Joab as commander of the army. He appears in 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, and 1 Chronicles.

• Lazarus Saturday

  [Feasts & Seasons]

  Lazarus Saturday is the Saturday immediately before Palm Sunday and commemorates Jesus' raising of the dead Lazarus at Bethany. It is observed chiefly by the Orthodox Church and by churches of the Eastern liturgical tradition.

• Micah's Idol

  [Bible]

  Micah's idol refers to an episode recorded in Judges 17–18. Micah, an Ephraimite, made an idol for his household and established a private priesthood. The tribe of Dan later seized both and installed them at its new settlement, Dan.

• Shebna

  [People]

  Shebna was a high-ranking official under King Hezekiah of Judah who served as scribe in the delegation that negotiated with the Assyrian commander Rabshakeh. Isaiah rebuked him for hewing out a tomb for himself on high and prophesied that his office would pass to Eliakim.

• Basemath

  [People]

  Basemath is a wife of Esau in the Book of Genesis who, through her son Reuel, became an ancestor of the chiefs of Edom. Genesis 26 and Genesis 36 give differing accounts of her origin. The First Book of Kings mentions a daughter of Solomon who bore the same name.

• Judges 19

  [Bible]

  Judges 19 tells of a Levite who, while returning from Bethlehem with his concubine, stops in Gibeah, a town of the tribe of Benjamin. There a mob assaults the concubine, and she dies. The Levite then divides her body into twelve pieces and sends them throughout all the territory of Israel.

• 1 Chronicles 14

  [Bible]

  1 Chronicles 14 records how Hiram king of Tyre helped build David's palace, lists the sons born to David in Jerusalem, and recounts David's two victories over the Philistines in the Valley of Rephaim.

• Methods of Bible Study

  [Christian Life]

  Methods of Bible study are the various approaches and procedures used to read the biblical text, understand its meaning, and apply it to life. They include inductive study, quiet time, reading through the Bible, and topical study.

• Acts 28

  [Bible]

  Acts 28 is the closing chapter of the book of Acts. After the shipwreck, Paul comes ashore on the island of Melita and stays there three months. He then reaches Rome, proclaims the gospel to the Jewish leaders, and for two years boldly preaches the kingdom of God from a rented house.

• Joah (Recorder under Hezekiah)

  [People]

  Joah, the son of Asaph, was the recorder under King Hezekiah of Judah. When the Assyrian army threatened Jerusalem, he went out with Eliakim and Shebna to meet the Rabshakeh.

• Matthew 18:15–17

  [Bible Verses]

  Matthew 18:15–17 sets out a step-by-step procedure for when a brother sins: one should first admonish him privately, then with one or two witnesses, and, if he still refuses to listen, tell it to the church. It is the foundational text for church discipline, and its scope of application is debated when it is applied to conflicts and crimes within the church.

• Galatians 4:13–14

  [Bible Verses]

  A passage in which Paul recalls that his "infirmity of the flesh" was the occasion for his first preaching of the gospel to the Galatians, and that they welcomed him rather than despising him in his weakness. Interpreters disagree about the nature of Paul's illness.

• Monothelitism

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Monothelitism was a seventh-century Christological position holding that Jesus Christ, though possessing two natures, divine and human, has only one will. It was rejected by the Third Council of Constantinople in 680–681.

• Bilhah

  [People]

  Bilhah was Rachel's handmaid in the Book of Genesis and a wife (concubine) of Jacob. She bore Dan and Naphtali, the ancestors of the tribes of Dan and Naphtali among the twelve tribes of Israel.

• Hadadezer

  [People]

  Hadadezer, son of Rehob, was king of the Aramean kingdom of Zobah in the time of David. David defeated him in two campaigns, and as a result the Aramean region came under Israelite influence.

• 2 Chronicles 30

  [Bible]

  2 Chronicles 30 records how Hezekiah, king of Judah, summoned all Israel, both north and south, to Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month, followed by a great festival lasting two weeks.

• Acts 19

  [Bible]

  Acts 19 records Paul's stay in Ephesus during his third missionary journey. There he baptizes disciples who had received only John's baptism, teaches for two years in the school of Tyrannus, and faces a riot stirred up by the silversmiths who made shrines of Artemis.

• Proverbs 11:24–25

  [Bible Verses]

  A couplet in Proverbs teaching that those who give generously end up with more, while those who hold on too tightly fall into want. It is often quoted in sermons encouraging almsgiving and offerings, and interpreters differ over whether it promises material reward or offers a general observation drawn from wisdom.

• Amon

  [People]

  Amon was a king of Judah, the son of Manasseh and the father of Josiah. He reigned in Jerusalem for two years before his servants conspired against him and killed him in his palace.