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Dinah
[People]Dinah was the daughter of Jacob and Leah and the only daughter of Jacob named in the Bible. She is the central figure in the Shechem incident recorded in Genesis 34.
Hokmah
[Bible]Hokmah is the Hebrew word for "wisdom." In the Old Testament it covers a wide range of meanings, from a craftsman's skill to the wisdom of a life lived in the fear of God. It is a central concept of the wisdom literature, including Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes.
Textual Criticism
[Doctrine & Theology]Textual criticism is the discipline of comparing and examining biblical manuscripts, which differ slightly from one another, in order to recover the form closest to the text as originally written. It is foundational to Bible translation and exegesis.
Captain of Fifty
[Bible]A captain of fifty is an Old Testament title for a person who governed or commanded a unit of fifty people. The title appears in passages such as Exodus 18 and 2 Kings 1.
Deuteronomy 6
[Bible]Deuteronomy 6 is the chapter in which Moses delivers the confession of the one God that begins "Hear, O Israel" (the Shema), together with the command to love God. He urges Israel to teach these words to their children and not to forget the LORD even in times of plenty.
Job 20
[Bible]Job 20 contains the second and final speech of Zophar the Naamathite. He argues that the prosperity of the wicked is brief and that they will surely perish under the wrath of God.
Hope
[Bible]Hope is a biblical term referring both to the disposition of trusting and waiting for the fulfillment of God's promises and to the object of that waiting. In the New Testament it is named, together with faith and love, as one of the central Christian virtues.
Isaiah 11
[Bible]Isaiah 11 is a prophecy of a righteous king who will come forth from the stem of Jesse, a kingdom of peace in which wild and domestic animals live together, and the return of scattered Israel.
Isaiah 40
[Bible]Isaiah 40, set against the background of the Babylonian exile, opens the second half of the Book of Isaiah. Beginning with the proclamation "Comfort ye my people," it celebrates the greatness of God, who created all things, and the renewed strength given to those who wait upon Him.
Isaiah 59
[Bible]Isaiah 59 declares that salvation is delayed not because God is unable to save but because of the people's sin. The chapter then records the people's lament and confession of sin, the LORD's coming in person to save, clothed in righteousness as armor, and the promise of a Redeemer coming to Zion, together with a covenant.
Jeremiah 20
[Bible]Jeremiah 20 recounts how Pashur, the official in charge of the temple, struck Jeremiah and put him in the stocks. It also records the complaint and confession of trust that Jeremiah poured out to God amid his suffering, followed by his lament cursing the day of his birth.
John 4
[Bible]John 4 is the chapter of the Gospel of John in which Jesus speaks with a woman at Jacob's well in Sychar of Samaria about living water and worship, and many people of that town come to believe. It also records the second sign, Jesus' healing of a royal official's son at Cana in Galilee.
John 7
[Bible]John 7 is the chapter in which Jesus teaches in the temple at Jerusalem during the Feast of Tabernacles and, on the last day of the feast, cries out, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink." A dispute arises among the crowds and the leaders over whether he is the Christ.
John 11
[Bible]John 11 is the chapter of the Gospel of John that records Jesus raising Lazarus at Bethany after he had been dead four days, and how this event led the chief priests and Pharisees to plot Jesus' death.
Romans 3
[Bible]Romans 3 concludes that Jews and Gentiles alike are under sin and declares that the righteousness of God is received not by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ.
Daniel 3:17–18
[Bible Verses]Daniel 3:17–18 is the reply of Daniel's three friends before the fiery furnace: God was able to deliver them, "but if not," they would still not bow to the king's image. It is a classic passage on faith that holds firm regardless of the outcome and is often cited in discussions of faith under persecution and, in Korea, of the history of resistance to Shinto shrine worship.
Nineveh
[Bible]Nineveh was an Assyrian city on the east bank of the Tigris River and for a time the capital of the empire. It is the setting of the books of Jonah and Nahum, and in the New Testament it is cited as an example of repentance.
Job 14:4
[Bible Verses]Job 14:4 is part of Job's appeal to God concerning human frailty, in which he says that a "clean thing" cannot come out of an "unclean." In the Christian tradition, the verse is often cited as a proof text for original sin and the corruption of human nature.
Sharon
[Bible]Sharon is a coastal plain along the Mediterranean south of Mount Carmel. In the Old Testament it appears as pastureland and as a symbol of fertility and beauty, and it is best known from the phrase "the rose of Sharon" in Song of Solomon 2:1.
Vespasian
[People]Vespasian (AD 9–79) was the Roman emperor (reigned 69–79) who founded the Flavian dynasty. Before becoming emperor, he commanded the suppression of the Jewish revolt, and his son Titus destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple in AD 70.