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• Jeremiah 3

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 3 is the third chapter of the Book of Jeremiah. It rebukes idolatrous Israel and Judah by likening them to a wife who has betrayed her husband, yet it also calls them to repentance and restoration with the words "Return, ye backsliding children."

• Ezekiel 1

  [Bible]

  Ezekiel 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Ezekiel. In it Ezekiel, a priest among the captives in Babylon, sees by the river Chebar a vision of "the glory of the LORD" appearing as four living creatures, wheels, and a figure upon a throne.

• Haggai 1

  [Bible]

  Haggai 1 records the message the prophet Haggai delivered to the people of Judah, who had returned from exile but kept postponing the rebuilding of the temple, urging them to resume the work. It also recounts how the leaders and the people obeyed and began work on the temple.

• Isaiah 7:14

  [Bible Verses]

  Isaiah 7:14 is the prophecy that a virgin will conceive and bear a son and call his name Immanuel. The Gospel of Matthew cites it as a prophecy of the birth of Jesus. A long-standing translation debate concerns whether the Hebrew word almah should be rendered "virgin" or "young woman."

• Stephen Langton

  [People]

  Stephen Langton (c. 1150–1228) was an English theologian and Archbishop of Canterbury who is widely known for establishing the chapter divisions used in Bibles today.

• Midrash

  [Bible]

  Midrash, from a Hebrew verb meaning "to seek" or "to inquire," refers both to the method by which Jewish rabbis interpreted the biblical text and to the body of literature that collects those interpretations.

• Homer Hulbert

  [People]

  Homer Hulbert (1863–1949) was an American Methodist missionary and educator. He came to Joseon in 1886 as an English teacher at the Yugyeong Gongwon (Royal English School). He later promoted Hangul, the Korean alphabet, engaged in journalism and writing, and supported the Korean independence movement, notably by assisting the dispatch of secret envoys to The Hague in 1907.

• Zechariah 8

  [Bible]

  Zechariah 8 contains God's promise to return to Zion and restore Jerusalem, commands to practice truth and justice, and prophecies that Israel's fasts will become joyful feasts and that the nations will come to Jerusalem to seek God.

• Parable of the Wedding Feast

  [Bible]

  The Parable of the Wedding Feast is a parable of Jesus found in Matthew 22:1-14. A king invites guests to his son's wedding feast, but they refuse; he then has people gathered from the highways to fill the feast. Luke 14 contains a similar "Parable of the Great Banquet."

• Edict of Nantes

  [History]

  The Edict of Nantes was a decree issued in 1598 by King Henry IV of France. It kept Catholicism as the state religion while granting limited religious freedom and civil rights to the Huguenots, the Calvinist Protestants of France, and it brought the French Wars of Religion to an end. Louis XIV revoked it in 1685 through the Edict of Fontainebleau.

• Dura

  [Bible]

  Dura was a plain in the province of Babylon where King Nebuchadnezzar set up a golden image and commanded all his officials to bow down to it (Daniel 3:1).

• King James Onlyism

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  King James Onlyism is the position that the only correct Bible is the King James Bible, produced in England in 1611, or a translation that follows its underlying text, the Textus Receptus.

• Hampton Court Conference

  [History]

  The Hampton Court Conference was a meeting held in January 1604 at Hampton Court Palace, at which King James I of England summoned bishops of the Church of England and Puritan representatives to discuss demands for church reform. It gave rise to the translation of the King James Bible.

• Jeriah

  [People]

  Jeriah was a chief of the Hebronite clan of the tribe of Levi in the time of David. At David's command he led a family that oversaw the work of God and the affairs of the king among the tribes east of the Jordan.

• Daniel 4

  [Bible]

  Daniel 4 is the chapter in which King Nebuchadnezzar dreams of a great tree and, as Daniel had interpreted, lives like a beast for seven times before being restored. He then issues a first-person decree praising the Most High God.

• Papal States

  [History]

  The Papal States were the territories in central Italy that the pope ruled directly as a temporal sovereign from 756 to 1870. They are regarded as the predecessor of present-day Vatican City, which was established by the Lateran Treaty of 1929.

• Hatach

  [People]

  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.

• Hadad the Edomite

  [People]

  Hadad was a member of the Edomite royal family who fled from Edom to Egypt in the time of David and later returned to become an adversary of Solomon. He appears in 1 Kings 11.

• Psalm 20

  [Bible]

  Psalm 20 is a prayer offered by the people on behalf of their king as he faces crisis or war. It is best known for its confession that the people will trust in the name of the LORD rather than in military might (v. 7).

• Hosea 10

  [Bible]

  Hosea 10 is a prophecy that rebukes the Northern Kingdom of Israel for multiplying altars and images as its prosperity grew and for serving the calf of Bethaven. It foretells the destruction of its king and its high places. Amid this judgment it issues a call to repentance: "Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy."