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• David

  [People]

  David was the second king of ancient Israel according to the Old Testament. He ruled the kingdom from Jerusalem, which he made his capital. Many of the Psalms are attributed to him, and the New Testament calls Jesus Christ "the son of David."

• Bethsaida

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  Bethsaida was a town on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee. The Gospels identify it as the hometown of the apostles Philip, Andrew, and Peter, and it is where Jesus healed a blind man and rebuked the town for failing to repent.

• 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.

• Cherub

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  Cherubim are winged beings in the Old Testament who guard God's holy presence and throne. They appear at the entrance to the Garden of Eden, upon the Ark of the Covenant, and in Ezekiel's visions.

• Capernaum

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  Capernaum was a town on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee that Jesus made the center of his ministry in Galilee. The Gospels call it "his own city," and many of his teachings and healings took place there.

• Soul (Bible)

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  In the Bible, "soul" translates the Hebrew nephesh and the Greek psyche, words that encompass breath, life, a living being, and the self. Interpretations differ on the constituent elements of the human person and on the state of the person after death.

• 2 Peter 2

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  2 Peter 2 warns against false teachers who will arise within the church. Citing God's judgment of the angels who sinned, the Flood in Noah's day, and Sodom and Gomorrah, it declares their destruction and likens their greed and licentiousness to the way of Balaam.

• Seer

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  A seer is "one who sees" what God has shown. In the Old Testament it is an older name for a prophet. Samuel, Gad, and Iddo, among others, were called by this title.

• Taxes

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  Taxes are money or goods collected from the people by a state or by the temple. Scripture mentions taxes under Egypt, the Israelite monarchy, Persia, and Rome, as well as the temple tax. The subject is best known through the saying "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's."

• John 3:3–5

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  John 3:3–5 is the passage in which Jesus tells the Pharisee Nicodemus, "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." It is the source of the expression "born again" (regeneration). Denominations differ over whether being "born of water and of the Spirit" refers to baptism.

• 1 Timothy 5:9

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  First Timothy 5:9 sets out the conditions for enrolling a widow on the list of those the church would care for: she must be at least sixty years old and must have been "the wife of one man." Interpreters differ over what kind of institution the early church's care for widows was and over the meaning of "the wife of one man."

• Jair (Son of Manasseh)

  [People]

  Jair was an Old Testament figure, a descendant of Manasseh, who took villages in the regions of Gilead and Bashan east of the Jordan River and named them Havoth-jair after himself.

• Carmi (son of Zabdi)

  [People]

  Carmi is an Old Testament figure from the clan of Zerah in the tribe of Judah. He was the son of Zabdi and the father of Achan, who secretly took some of the devoted things at Jericho. His name appears in Joshua 7 and 1 Chronicles 2:7.

• Kinsman-Redeemer

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  The kinsman-redeemer (Hebrew goel) is an Old Testament institution in which a close relative paid the price to recover land or freedom that a family member had lost through poverty or similar circumstances. Boaz in the Book of Ruth is the best-known example.

• Jairus

  [People]

  Jairus was a ruler of the synagogue named in the Gospels of Mark and Luke. He sought Jesus' help for his dying twelve-year-old daughter, and Jesus raised her to life.

• Anthony of Egypt

  [People]

  Anthony of Egypt (c. 251–356) was an early church hermit who lived a solitary monastic life in the Egyptian desert. He is often called the "Father of Monasticism."

• Ucal

  [People]

  Ucal is an Old Testament figure named in Proverbs 30:1, together with Ithiel, as one to whom Agur delivered his sayings. He appears only once in the Bible, and nothing is known of his life.

• Chimham

  [People]

  Chimham was the man whom the aged Barzillai sent with King David in his place when David crossed the Jordan to return to Jerusalem after Absalom's rebellion had been put down. He appears only in 2 Samuel 19.

• Ecclesiastes 11:9–10

  [Bible Verses]

  A passage in which the Preacher urges a young man to enjoy his youth while remembering that God will bring every deed into judgment. Because it joins enjoyment and accountability in a single sentence and observes that youth passes quickly, it is frequently cited in sermons addressed to young people.

• New Testament Quotations of the Old Testament

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  The practice by which New Testament writers reproduce or borrow the words of the Old Testament to explain Jesus Christ and the church, and the passages in which they do so. These quotations are treated as a key resource for understanding the relationship between the Old and New Testaments.