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Naboth's Vineyard
[Bible]Naboth's vineyard is the episode in which King Ahab of the northern kingdom of Israel and his queen, Jezebel, had Naboth the Jezreelite put to death through a false trial in order to seize his vineyard. The account appears in 1 Kings 21.
Elnathan
[People]Elnathan was a man of Jerusalem in the final years of the kingdom of Judah and the father of Nehushta, the mother of King Jehoiachin (2 Kings 24:8). Many identify him with "Elnathan the son of Achbor," an official of King Jehoiakim mentioned in the Book of Jeremiah.
Jerimoth
[People]Jerimoth is a Hebrew personal name found in the Old Testament books of Chronicles. This article focuses mainly on "Jerimoth the son of David" (2 Chronicles 11:18), who is recorded as the father-in-law of King Rehoboam, and also lists other individuals who bear the same name.
Daniel 8
[Bible]Daniel 8 records Daniel's vision of a ram and a male goat in the third year of King Belshazzar, together with its interpretation by the angel Gabriel. The chapter features a "little horn" that defiles the sanctuary and the "two thousand and three hundred days."
Kore
[People]Kore was a Levite, the son of Imnah, who served during the reign of King Hezekiah of the southern kingdom of Judah. He was gatekeeper of the east gate of the temple and was placed in charge of distributing the freewill offerings and the most holy things (2 Chronicles 31:14).
Neriah
[People]Neriah is a figure in the Old Testament Book of Jeremiah. He was the son of Maaseiah and the father of Baruch, Jeremiah's scribe, and of Seraiah, an official of King Zedekiah.
Aiah
[People]Aiah is a figure in 2 Samuel, the father of Rizpah, a concubine of King Saul. Scripture refers to him only as "the father of Rizpah" and records nothing else about his life.
Contest on Mount Carmel
[Bible]The contest on Mount Carmel was an event during the reign of King Ahab of the northern kingdom of Israel in which the prophet Elijah confronted the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel and demonstrated that the God who answers by fire is the true God. It is recorded in 1 Kings 18.
Zadok
[People]Zadok was a priest in the time of David and Solomon. He anointed Solomon as king, and Scripture records his descendants as the family that carried on the priesthood of the Jerusalem temple.
Naboth
[People]Naboth was a Jezreelite who appears in 1 Kings 21. He refused to sell his ancestral vineyard to King Ahab and, through a scheme devised by Jezebel, was falsely accused and stoned to death.
Oded
[People]Oded was a prophet active in Samaria, the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel, during the reign of King Ahaz of Judah. He rebuked the army of Israel and urged it to send back the captives taken from Judah (2 Chronicles 28:9-15).
Absalom's Rebellion
[Bible]Absalom's rebellion was the revolt in which Absalom, son of King David, declared himself king in Hebron and rose up against his father. Recounted in 2 Samuel 15–18, it ends with Absalom's death and David's mourning.
Ruth
[People]Ruth is a Moabite woman and the central figure of the Old Testament Book of Ruth. She followed her mother-in-law Naomi to Bethlehem, married Boaz, and became the great-grandmother of King David.
Queen Mother
[Bible]The queen mother is a biblical term for a woman who, as the mother of the king, held an official position at the royal court. It is best known from the account of King Asa of Judah removing his mother Maachah from this position.
Hezekiah's Tunnel
[Bible]Hezekiah's Tunnel is an underground water channel in Jerusalem, generally thought to have been cut through rock during the reign of King Hezekiah of Judah to carry water from the Gihon Spring to the Pool of Siloam inside the city. It is also called the Siloam Tunnel.
Siloam Tunnel
[Bible]The Siloam Tunnel is a rock-cut channel that carries water from the Gihon Spring in Jerusalem to the Pool of Siloam inside the city. It is commonly identified as the conduit dug by King Hezekiah of Judah and is therefore also called Hezekiah's Tunnel.
Urijah (prophet)
[People]Urijah, the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath-jearim, was a prophet in the reign of King Jehoiakim of Judah. He prophesied judgment in the same terms as Jeremiah and fled to Egypt, but he was brought back and put to death by the king's sword. He appears only in Jeremiah 26.
Blastus
[People]Blastus is a figure mentioned only once, in Acts 12:20, as the chamberlain of King Herod (Agrippa I). When the people of Tyre and Sidon sought to make peace with the king, they conveyed their request through him.
Jehosheba
[People]Jehosheba was the daughter of King Jehoram of Judah and the sister of King Ahaziah. When Athaliah killed the royal family, she hid the young Joash and saved his life. In 2 Chronicles she is called "Jehoshabeath."
Sharon
[Bible]Sharon is a coastal plain along the Mediterranean south of Mount Carmel. In the Old Testament it appears as pastureland and as a symbol of fertility and beauty, and it is best known from the phrase "the rose of Sharon" in Song of Solomon 2:1.