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Ezra 8
[Bible]Ezra 8 records the families who returned from Babylon with Ezra, the gathering of Levites and the fast at the river of Ahava, and the entrusting of the temple offerings, which were brought safely to Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 11
[Bible]Ezekiel 11 is the final chapter of the vision of the Jerusalem temple (chapters 8–11). It recounts the judgment on the leaders who remained in Jerusalem, the promise of a new heart to the exiles, and the departure of the glory of God from the city.
Zechariah 1
[Bible]Zechariah 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Zechariah. It opens with a call to the people who had returned from exile to "turn ye unto me," followed by the first two of the prophet's eight night visions: the man riding a red horse among the myrtle trees, and the four horns and the four craftsmen.
Zechariah 5
[Bible]Zechariah 5 contains the sixth and seventh of Zechariah's night visions: a flying scroll that punishes thieves and those who swear falsely, and a woman called "Wickedness" who is placed in an ephah basket and carried away to the land of Shinar.
Jeremiah 33:6–9
[Bible Verses]Jeremiah 33:6–9 is a passage in which God promises to heal Jerusalem, then besieged by Babylon and on the verge of collapse, to bring back its captives, and to forgive its sins. Because it contains promises of restoration and forgiveness, it is frequently cited in sermons on healing and restoration.
Mount Carmel
[Bible]Mount Carmel is a mountain range in northern Israel that extends inland toward the southeast from the Mediterranean coast. It is best known as the place where Elijah confronted the prophets of Baal and prayed for rain (1 Kings 18).
Sycamore Fig
[Bible]The sycamore fig is a tree of the fig family that grows in the warm lowlands of Egypt and Palestine. In the Bible it appears as the tree Amos tended and as the tree Zacchaeus climbed to see Jesus.
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.