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Jehoiada
[People]Jehoiada was a priest in the southern kingdom of Judah during the reigns of Athaliah and Joash. When Athaliah killed the royal family, he hid the young Joash, who had survived, in the temple and raised him there. He later made Joash king and renewed the covenant with the people.
Rabshakeh
[People]Rabshakeh was a high-ranking official whom Sennacherib, king of Assyria, sent to Hezekiah, king of Judah. He is known for a speech before the walls of Jerusalem in which he demanded that the people of Judah surrender and mocked the LORD.
Mithredath
[People]Mithredath is a Persian personal name found in the Book of Ezra. Two individuals bear this name: the treasurer of King Cyrus, who handed over the temple vessels to Sheshbazzar, and a man who wrote to King Artaxerxes.
2 Kings 8
[Bible]2 Kings 8 records how a woman who heeded Elisha's word escaped a seven-year famine and recovered her land on her return, how Elisha told Hazael that he would become king of Aram, and the reigns of Jehoram and Ahaziah, kings of Judah.
Jeremiah 43
[Bible]Jeremiah 43 records how Johanan and the remnant of Judah rejected Jeremiah's warning as false and went down to Tahpanhes in Egypt, taking Jeremiah and Baruch with them. There Jeremiah buried large stones as a symbolic act, prophesying that Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, would invade Egypt.
Cupbearer
[Bible]A cupbearer was a court official in ancient royal palaces who poured wine and served it to the king. In the Bible, the best-known examples are Pharaoh's chief butler in the story of Joseph and Nehemiah, who served the Persian king Artaxerxes.
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.
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.
Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin
[Bible]Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin is the Aramaic inscription that the fingers of a man's hand wrote on the palace wall during the feast of Belshazzar, king of Babylon, in Daniel 5. Daniel interpreted it as God's declaration of judgment: the kingdom had come to an end and would be divided.
Morning Star
[Bible]The morning star is the star that heralds the dawn in the eastern sky before sunrise. In the Bible it serves as a symbol of the coming of a new day and of Christ, and it is also used figuratively of the king of Babylon, who fell because of his pride.
Osnappar
[People]Osnappar is a figure mentioned only once, in Ezra 4:10, where he is described as the "great and noble" one who resettled various peoples in Samaria and in the land west of the Euphrates River. He is commonly identified with the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal.
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.
Jeremiah 27
[Bible]Jeremiah 27 is the chapter in which Jeremiah wears a yoke on his neck and tells Judah and five neighboring nations to serve the king of Babylon. He also warns that prophecies of the temple vessels' imminent return from Babylon are false.
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.
Daniel (Prophet)
[People]Daniel was a man of Judah who, according to the Bible, served in the royal court during the Babylonian exile. He is the central figure of the Book of Daniel and is widely known for interpreting dreams and for his deliverance from the lions' den.
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.
Genesis 15
[Bible]Genesis 15 is the chapter in which God promises the childless Abram descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven, along with the land of Canaan, and establishes a covenant through a ceremony in which a burning lamp passes between divided animals.
Genesis 21
[Bible]Genesis 21 recounts the birth of Isaac in fulfillment of God's promise, the sending away of Hagar and her son and their rescue in the wilderness, and Abraham's covenant with Abimelech at Beersheba.