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Phrygia
[Bible]Phrygia is the name of an inland region of west-central Asia Minor (modern Türkiye). It is mentioned three times in the Acts of the Apostles, and Paul passed through it on two occasions.
Church History
[History]Church history is the history of the church, or the academic discipline that studies that history. Eusebius's fourth-century Ecclesiastical History is regarded as the beginning of systematic writing in the field. Today church history is taught in seminaries as a branch of historical theology.
Sheba (son of Bichri)
[People]Sheba, a Benjaminite and the son of Bichri, lived in the time of King David. Shortly after Absalom's rebellion ended, he incited the tribes of Israel to revolt against David and was put to death in the city of Abel (2 Samuel 20).
Beulah
[Bible]Beulah is the new name that God gives to the restored land of Zion in Isaiah 62:4. Meaning "married woman" in Hebrew, it signifies that a land once forsaken and desolate is restored to a marriage relationship with God.
Osnappar
[People]Osnappar is a figure mentioned only once, in Ezra 4:10, where he is described as the "great and noble" one who resettled various peoples in Samaria and in the land west of the Euphrates River. He is commonly identified with the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal.
Zebidah
[People]Zebidah was a wife of King Josiah of Judah and the mother of King Jehoiakim. She is named only once, in 2 Kings 23:36, where she is identified as the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
Makkedah
[Bible]Makkedah was a town in the lowland of Judah that appears in the account of Joshua's conquest of Canaan. It was the site of the cave where five Amorite kings hid before they were captured and executed, and it later became a town of the tribe of Judah.
Sending of the Seventy
[Bible]The Sending of the Seventy is an event in which Jesus appointed seventy others, apart from the Twelve, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every town he intended to visit. It is recorded only in Luke 10.
Pamphylia
[Bible]Pamphylia was a region on the southern coast of Asia Minor (modern Türkiye). In the Book of Acts, it appears in the list of nations at Pentecost, in the account of Paul's first missionary journey, and in the narrative of his voyage to Rome. It is known as the place where Mark left Paul and his companions.
Pisidia
[Bible]Pisidia was an inland region in the Taurus Mountains of southern Asia Minor (modern Turkey). In the Book of Acts, Paul and Barnabas pass through it on their first missionary journey.
Perga
[Bible]Perga was a city in the region of Pamphylia in southern Asia Minor. In the Book of Acts it appears as the place where Mark left Paul's company during the first missionary journey and as a city where Paul and his companions preached the word on their return.
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.
2 Samuel 17
[Bible]2 Samuel 17 is the chapter in which the counsel of Ahithophel and the counsel of Hushai are set against each other before Absalom. Hushai's counsel is adopted, David escapes across the Jordan, and Ahithophel takes his own life.
Psalm 80
[Bible]Psalm 80 is a psalm of Asaph and a communal lament. Comparing Israel to a vine brought out of Egypt and planted, it implores God, the "Shepherd of Israel," to restore His devastated people.
Illyricum
[Bible]Illyricum was a Roman province on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. In Romans 15:19, Paul names it as the outer limit of the region in which he had preached the gospel.
Pontus
[Bible]Pontus was a region in northern Asia Minor along the southern coast of the Black Sea. In the New Testament it appears in the Pentecost narrative, as the birthplace of Aquila, and as one of the regions addressed in 1 Peter.
Cappadocia
[Bible]Cappadocia was a region in the east-central interior of Asia Minor, in what is now central Türkiye. In the New Testament it appears in the account of Pentecost and as one of the regions addressed in 1 Peter.
Psalm 123
[Bible]Psalm 123 is one of the Songs of Ascents. It is a brief four-verse prayer in which the psalmist looks to God as a servant looks to the hand of his master, pleading for mercy amid contempt and scorn.
Psalm 127
[Bible]Psalm 127 is one of the Songs of Ascents, a five-verse psalm whose superscription bears the name of Solomon. It declares that building a house, guarding a city, the toil of earning a living, and the gift of children all depend on the LORD.
Psalm 126
[Bible]Psalm 126 is a six-verse psalm and one of the Songs of Ascents. It looks back on the restoration of Zion as a joy like a dream, prays for restoration once more, and closes with the promise that those who sow in tears will reap in joy.