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Nehemiah (person)
[People]Nehemiah was an Old Testament figure who served as cupbearer to the Persian king Artaxerxes and later became governor of Judah. Together with the community that had returned from exile, he rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem and restored order within the community.
Riblah
[Bible]Riblah was a town in the land of Hamath in Syria. The kings of Egypt and Babylon used it as a military base, and the Bible records it as the place where Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, interrogated and punished Zedekiah, king of Judah.
Zerah (the Cushite)
[People]Zerah was a Cushite who led a vast army as far as Mareshah in the days of King Asa of Judah and was defeated. He appears only in 2 Chronicles 14.
Bel and the Dragon
[Bible]Bel and the Dragon is a story in which Daniel exposes the true nature of Bel, an idol of Babylon, and of a dragon worshiped there. It has been transmitted as an addition to the Greek Book of Daniel. Catholic and Orthodox Bibles include it as Daniel 14, while Protestants classify it among the Apocrypha.
Abner
[People]Abner was the commander of King Saul's army. After Saul's death he made Ish-bosheth king, later went over to David, and was killed by Joab at Hebron.
Psalm 2:12
[Bible Verses]The final verse of Psalm 2, which warns the kings of the earth to submit to the king whom the LORD has installed ("the Son") and pronounces a blessing on those who take refuge in the LORD. It is widely read as a prophecy of Christ and is frequently discussed because of the difficulty of translating the Hebrew word rendered "Son."
Mary I of England
[People]Mary I (1516–1558) was Queen of England and Ireland (reigned 1553–1558). She restored Catholicism in England and executed Protestants, which led Protestant exiles to produce the Geneva Bible.
Esarhaddon
[People]Esarhaddon was a king of Assyria who succeeded Sennacherib after Sennacherib was murdered by his sons. He is mentioned briefly by name in 2 Kings, Isaiah, and Ezra.
Haggith
[People]Haggith was one of the wives of King David and the mother of Adonijah, the fourth son born to David in Hebron. Scripture records only her name.
Jehoshabeath
[People]Jehoshabeath was the daughter of King Jehoram of Judah and the wife of the priest Jehoiada. When Athaliah massacred the royal family, she hid the young Joash and so preserved the line of the house of David. In 2 Kings she appears under the name Jehosheba.
Absalom
[People]Absalom was the third son of King David, an Old Testament figure who rebelled against his father in an attempt to seize the throne and was killed in battle. His story is recorded chiefly in 2 Samuel.
Widow of Zarephath
[People]The widow of Zarephath is a woman from Zarephath in the region of Sidon who appears in 1 Kings 17. During a drought she fed the prophet Elijah, and her son was restored to life after he died. Scripture does not record her name.
Altar of Incense
[Bible]The altar of incense was a small gold-overlaid altar that stood in the holy place of the tabernacle and the temple, where incense was burned morning and evening. Instructions for making it appear in Exodus 30, and elsewhere in Scripture it becomes a symbol of prayer.
Middle Wall of Partition
[Bible]The "middle wall of partition" is an expression from Ephesians 2:14 for the barrier between Jews and Gentiles that Christ broke down through the cross. In Korean churches the phrase is frequently cited in connection with reconciliation and unity.
Song of Simeon
[Worship & Rites]The Song of Simeon is Simeon's hymn of praise recorded in Luke 2:29–32. Also known as the Nunc Dimittis, from its opening words in Latin, it has been sung in many church traditions at evening prayer and in Communion and funeral services.
Valley of Siddim
[Bible]The Valley of Siddim is the valley in Genesis 14 where a coalition of four kings fought a coalition of five kings, including the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah. Scripture identifies it as "the salt sea."
Ahimaaz
[People]Ahimaaz was the son of Zadok, the priest during the reign of King David. During Absalom's rebellion he served as a messenger, carrying news from Jerusalem to David.
Shaashgaz
[People]Shaashgaz was a eunuch of the Persian king Ahasuerus in the Book of Esther. He had charge of the "second house of the women," where the women who had spent a night with the king resided.
Walk to Canossa
[History]The Walk to Canossa was the event of January 1077 in which the excommunicated German king Henry IV sought forgiveness from Pope Gregory VII at the castle of Canossa in northern Italy and received absolution. It is regarded as an emblematic episode of the Investiture Controversy, the medieval conflict between the papacy and secular rulers.
Song of Simeon
[Bible]The Song of Simeon is the short hymn of praise that Simeon sang in the Temple while holding the infant Jesus, recorded in Luke 2:29-32. It is also called the Nunc Dimittis, from its opening words in Latin.