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• Joel 2:32

  [Bible Verses]

  Joel 2:32 promises that on the day of the LORD "whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered." Quoted in Peter's Pentecost sermon (Acts 2:21) and in Romans 10:13, it is frequently cited as a text on the universal offer of salvation and on the lordship of Jesus.

• Agabus

  [People]

  Agabus was a prophet of the early church who appears twice in the Book of Acts. At Antioch he foretold a great famine, and at Caesarea he prophesied through a symbolic action that Paul would be bound in Jerusalem.

• Jeremiah 1

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Jeremiah. It contains the book's superscription, the account of Jeremiah's call to be a prophet, and two visions: the rod of an almond tree and the seething pot.

• El Olam

  [Bible]

  El Olam is a Hebrew title meaning "the Everlasting God." It is the name by which Abraham called on God at Beersheba in Genesis 21:33, and it expresses the eternity of God.

• Penuel

  [Bible]

  Penuel was a town east of the Jordan River near the Jabbok River. Jacob named the place Peniel ("face of God") after wrestling there through the night, and the town also appears in the accounts of Gideon and Jeroboam.

• Judges 18

  [Bible]

  Judges 18 tells how the tribe of Dan, still seeking territory, seized the idols and the Levite priest from Micah's house, conquered the northern city of Laish, renamed it Dan, and set up the graven image there.

• Jeremiah 40

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 40 recounts how, after the fall of Jerusalem, Nebuzaradan, the Babylonian captain of the guard, releases Jeremiah, who then goes to Gedaliah, the governor at Mizpah, and stays there with the people left in the land.

• Ezekiel 48

  [Bible]

  Ezekiel 48 is the final chapter of the Book of Ezekiel. It divides the restored land among the twelve tribes of Israel in long east-west strips, places the sanctuary and the city in their midst, and closes with the promise that the city will be named "Jehovah-shammah" ("The LORD is there").

• Babylon

  [Bible]

  Babylon was an ancient city and empire on the Euphrates River in southern Mesopotamia. In the Bible it is the nation that destroyed Judah and carried its people into captivity, and in the Book of Revelation it is a symbol of the powers opposed to God.

• Masada

  [History]

  Masada is an ancient fortress on a rocky plateau in the Judean Desert west of the Dead Sea. Near the end of the First Jewish–Roman War, Jewish rebels held out there against the Roman army until the fortress fell.

• Jonah 4:2

  [Bible Verses]

  In this verse Jonah, angered that Nineveh has been spared, tells God why he had fled. The verse is frequently discussed for its irony, since Jonah turns the confession of God's grace from Exodus 34 into grounds for complaint, and for its statement that God "repentest thee of the evil."

• Brook Kishon

  [Bible]

  The Brook Kishon is a stream that flows through the Jezreel Valley and along the foot of Mount Carmel into the Mediterranean Sea. In the Bible it appears as the place where Deborah and Barak defeated the army of Sisera and where Elijah executed the prophets of Baal.

• Nicolaitans

  [Bible]

  The Nicolaitans are a group mentioned in the letters to the churches at Ephesus and Pergamum in Revelation 2. Scripture records only that Christ hates their deeds and doctrine; it does not identify who they were.

• Caesarea

  [Bible]

  Caesarea was a Roman-era port city on the Mediterranean coast. According to Acts, it was where Cornelius was converted and where Paul was held in custody for two years. It is distinct from Caesarea Philippi in the northern interior.

• Moriah

  [Bible]

  Moriah is the name of the land to which Abraham went at God's command to offer his son Isaac as a burnt offering. Second Chronicles calls the mountain in Jerusalem on which Solomon built the temple Mount Moriah.

• Deuteronomy 29

  [Bible]

  Deuteronomy 29 is the chapter in which Moses establishes the covenant anew with all the people of Israel in the land of Moab. It warns that if they forsake the covenant and serve other gods, the land will be laid waste and the people driven out into another land.

• Pi-hahiroth

  [Bible]

  Pi-hahiroth is the place where the Israelites encamped during the Exodus just before crossing the Red Sea. Mentioned in Exodus 14 and Numbers 33, it lay near Egypt's eastern frontier.

• Achmetha

  [Bible]

  Achmetha is a city in the province of Media mentioned in Ezra 6:2. The decree of Cyrus authorizing the rebuilding of the temple was discovered in its palace. It was the ancient capital of Media, commonly known as Ecbatana.

• Calvin's Geneva

  [History]

  Calvin's Geneva refers to the period of the Reformation in Geneva from 1536 to 1564, during which John Calvin was active in the city. During these years Geneva established a new church order, church discipline, and system of education, and it became a center of Reformed Protestantism.

• Jabesh-gilead

  [Bible]

  Jabesh-gilead was an Israelite town in the region of Gilead, east of the Jordan River. It appears in the account of a punishment at the close of the period of the judges, in the siege by the Ammonite king Nahash and Saul's rescue of the town, and in the account of Saul's burial.