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• Table of Nations

  The Table of Nations is the genealogy of the descendants of Noah's three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, recorded in Genesis 10. It traces how humanity divided and spread into many peoples and nations after the Flood. It is also called the List of Nations.

• Table of Nations

  The Table of Nations is the genealogy in Genesis 10 of the peoples descended from Noah's three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. In a single list, it shows how humanity divided into many nations and languages and spread abroad after the Flood.

• Raamah

  Raamah is a figure in the Table of Nations in Genesis 10: a son of Cush, a grandson of Noah's son Ham, and the father of Sheba and Dedan. In the Book of Ezekiel, the same name refers to an Arabian people who traded with Tyre.

• Genesis 10

  Genesis 10 is a genealogical chapter recording how the nations branched out after the Flood from Noah's three sons, Japheth, Ham, and Shem. It is commonly called the "Table of Nations."

• Esther (Biblical Figure)

  Esther is the central figure of the Old Testament Book of Esther. She became queen to the Persian king Ahasuerus and saved the Jews when Haman's scheme threatened them with annihilation.

• Mordecai

  Mordecai was a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin who appears in the Old Testament Book of Esther. He raised his cousin Esther, thwarted Haman's plot to massacre the Jews, and rose to become second only to the king in the Persian Empire.

• Purim

  Purim is a Jewish festival observed on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar to commemorate the deliverance of the Jews in the Persian period from Haman's plot to annihilate them. It is instituted in Esther 9.

• Gospel of Thomas

  The Gospel of Thomas is an ancient document containing a collection of 114 sayings of Jesus. Its complete text in Coptic was discovered in 1945 at Nag Hammadi, Egypt. It is not included in the biblical canon.

• Battle of Qarqar

  The Battle of Qarqar was fought in 853 BC at Qarqar, near the Orontes River in Syria, between the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III and a coalition of twelve kings that included Damascus, Hamath, and Israel. Ahab, king of the northern kingdom of Israel, is recorded as a participant.

• Esther 7

  Esther 7 recounts how Esther, at her second banquet, reveals to King Ahasuerus the danger facing her people and names Haman as their enemy, after which Haman is hanged on the gallows he had built for Mordecai.

• Esther 6

  Esther 6 recounts how King Ahasuerus, unable to sleep, has the court records read to him and learns of Mordecai's service, and how Haman, who had planned to have Mordecai put to death, is instead assigned to honor him in a dramatic reversal.

• Esther 5

  Esther 5 recounts how, on the third day, Esther approaches the king unsummoned, obtains his favor, and invites the king and Haman to a banquet. It also describes how Haman, enraged at Mordecai, has a gallows built on which to hang him.

• Ezekiel 39

  Ezekiel 39 is a prophecy that Gog and his army will fall on the mountains of Israel and be buried in the Valley of Hamon-gog. It closes with God's promise to gather scattered Israel again and to pour out His Spirit.

• Harbona

  Harbona was a chamberlain who served the Persian king Ahasuerus. He told the king about the gallows Haman had erected to hang Mordecai, and as a result Haman himself was hanged on it (Esther 7:9).

• Hatach

  Hatach is a eunuch of the Persian court mentioned in the Book of Esther. King Ahasuerus appointed him to attend Queen Esther, and when Haman's decree for the massacre of the Jews was issued, he carried messages between Esther and Mordecai.

• Infancy Gospel of Thomas

  The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is an early Christian apocryphal work that collects miracle stories from the childhood of Jesus between the ages of five and twelve. It is thought to have been written around the second century. Despite the similar name, it is a different book from the Gospel of Thomas found at Nag Hammadi.

• Esther 4:14

  Mordecai's words to Esther as she hesitates to go before the king, asking whether she may have come to her royal position "for such a time as this." The verse is frequently cited both for suggesting divine providence without naming God and as a text about calling.

• Julius Wellhausen

  Julius Wellhausen (1844–1918) was a German Old Testament scholar and Orientalist. He is widely known for systematizing the Documentary Hypothesis, which holds that the Pentateuch was composed from four sources (J, E, D, and P).

• Kim Chi-sun

  Kim Chi-sun (1899–1968) was a Presbyterian minister and Old Testament scholar. Shortly after Korea's liberation, as senior pastor of Namdaemun Church, he led the Three Million Revival Movement, and he founded Daehan Theological Seminary (now Anyang University). He is known as "the Jeremiah of Korea."

• Kim Kyo-shin

  Kim Kyo-shin (金敎臣, 1901–1945) was a Christian thinker and educator during the Japanese colonial period in Korea. An adherent of the Non-Church (Mukyokai) movement, he published the Bible-study magazine Seongseo Joseon (The Bible and Korea) and taught many students, including Sohn Kee-chung, at Yangjeong Higher Common School.