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• Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire

  [History]

  The persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire refers to the punishment of Christians by Roman authorities, and their efforts to compel Christians to renounce their faith, from the reign of Nero in the first century to Constantine's legal recognition of Christianity in the early fourth century.

• Nabataea

  [History]

  Nabataea was a kingdom of an Arab people in southern Jordan and northwestern Arabia from around the fourth century BC until AD 106. Its capital was Petra, and the New Testament mentions one of its kings, Aretas.

• Cherethites

  [Bible]

  The Cherethites were an Old Testament people living near the Philistine coastal region. They are best known as part of King David's bodyguard, "the Cherethites and the Pelethites," and many scholars associate them with the island of Crete.

• Genesis 39

  [Bible]

  Genesis 39 tells how Joseph, sold as a slave into the house of Potiphar, captain of the Egyptian guard, refuses the advances of his master's wife, is falsely accused, and is put in prison; yet because the LORD is with him, he prospers even in prison.

• Ruth 1

  [Bible]

  Ruth 1 tells how the family of Elimelech, having moved to Moab during a famine in the time of the judges, loses all its men, and how Naomi returns to Bethlehem with her Moabite daughter-in-law Ruth.

• 2 Samuel 6

  [Bible]

  This chapter recounts how David brings the ark of God (the Ark of the Covenant) to the City of David. The procession halts when Uzzah dies, and the ark rests at the house of Obed-edom before being brought up with rejoicing. Michal despises David for dancing.

• Psalm 76

  [Bible]

  Psalm 76 is a psalm of Asaph, a twelve-verse song praising God, who dwells in Zion, for breaking the armies of the enemy and arising to save the meek of the earth.

• Libya

  [Bible]

  Libya (Lubim) is the biblical name for the land of North Africa west of Egypt and for its people. In the Old Testament its people appear alongside the Egyptian army; in the New Testament the region is named as a place of origin for the crowd gathered in Jerusalem at Pentecost.

• Psalm 114

  [Bible]

  Psalm 114 is a short hymn of praise celebrating Israel's exodus from Egypt and its journey through the wilderness. It portrays the sea, the Jordan, and the mountains retreating and leaping before God, and it calls on the whole earth to tremble in the presence of the Lord.

• Seven Seals

  [Bible]

  The seven seals are the seals that close the scroll held in the hand of God in Revelation 5–8. As the slain Lamb opens them one by one, war, famine, death, martyrdom, and cosmic upheaval follow in succession.

• Book of Judith

  [Bible]

  The Book of Judith is a sixteen-chapter book that tells how the widow Judith saved Israel by killing the enemy general Holofernes. The Catholic and Orthodox churches include it in the Old Testament, while Protestants classify it among the Apocrypha, outside the canon.

• Jeremiah 21

  [Bible]

  A chapter set during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem, in which King Zedekiah asks Jeremiah to entreat the LORD for deliverance and Jeremiah instead announces the city's fall, declaring that those who surrender will live.

• Jeremiah 37

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 37 recounts how, during the reign of King Zedekiah, Jeremiah is arrested on a charge of desertion and imprisoned while the Babylonian army has temporarily withdrawn, and how the king secretly summons him to ask for a word from the LORD.

• Lamentations 1

  [Bible]

  Lamentations 1 is a lament that portrays fallen Jerusalem as a widow left alone and mourns her devastation. Its 22 verses follow the order of the Hebrew alphabet, and the chapter confesses that the suffering came because of the people's sin.

• Ezekiel 8

  [Bible]

  Ezekiel 8 is the chapter in which Ezekiel, while in Babylon, is brought in a vision to the temple in Jerusalem, where he sees in succession four abominable forms of idolatry practiced in and around the temple.

• Gadi

  [People]

  Gadi was the father of Menahem, king of the northern kingdom of Israel. He appears only twice, both times in 2 Kings 15, where his son is introduced as "Menahem the son of Gadi."

• Beeri

  [People]

  Beeri is an Old Testament figure named only in Hosea 1:1 as the father of the prophet Hosea. Scripture records nothing else about his life.

• Imlah

  [People]

  Imlah was the father of Micaiah, a prophet in the time of King Ahab of the northern kingdom of Israel. He appears in Scripture only four times, always in the phrase "Micaiah the son of Imlah."