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• 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.

• Numbers 25

  [Bible]

  Numbers 25 records how Israel, while at Shittim, committed whoredom with the women of Moab and worshiped Baal-peor, bringing a plague upon the people. Phinehas stopped the plague and received the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, and God commanded Israel to strike Midian.

• 2 Samuel 4

  [Bible]

  2 Samuel 4 recounts how Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, is murdered by his captains Rechab and Baanah, and how David, upon receiving his head, has the two men executed.

• Silk Letter of Hwang Sa-yeong

  [History]

  The Silk Letter of Hwang Sa-yeong is a secret letter that the Catholic believer Hwang Sa-yeong wrote on white silk during the Sinyu Persecution of 1801. It describes the course of the persecution and proposes remedies. It was intended for Bishop Gouvea in Beijing but was discovered before delivery, and its discovery intensified the suppression of Catholicism in Joseon Korea.

• Isaiah 6:8

  [Bible Verses]

  Isaiah 6:8 is the verse in which the prophet Isaiah, during his vision in the temple, hears the voice of the Lord asking whom He shall send and answers, "Here am I; send me." It is frequently cited as a text on calling, dedication, and the sending of missionaries.

• Malchijah

  [People]

  Malchijah is a Hebrew name borne by several different people in the Old Testament books of 1 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Jeremiah. Nehemiah 3 names three men called Malchijah who took part in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem.

• 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."

• Jerusalem

  [Bible]

  Jerusalem is a city in the hill country of Judah. David made it his capital and Solomon built the temple there, making it the center of Israel's faith. Jesus was crucified and rose again there, and at the close of the Bible it becomes the symbol of the "New Jerusalem."

• Shushan

  [Bible]

  Shushan (Susa) was a royal city of the Persian Empire that appears in the Old Testament books of Esther, Nehemiah, and Daniel. It is identified with the area around modern Shush in southwestern Iran.

• Pharaoh's Daughter

  [People]

  Pharaoh's daughter is the Egyptian princess in Exodus 2 who drew the infant Moses out from among the reeds of the Nile and raised him as her own son. Scripture does not give her name.

• Nathan's Parable

  [Bible]

  Nathan's parable is the story of a poor man's ewe lamb, told by the prophet Nathan to convict David of his sin after David lay with Bathsheba and caused the death of her husband Uriah (2 Samuel 12:1-4).

• Zarephath

  [Bible]

  Zarephath was a Phoenician town on the Mediterranean coast between Tyre and Sidon. The prophet Elijah stayed there during a drought and was provided for by a widow. In the New Testament the name appears as "Sarepta."

• Carchemish

  [Bible]

  Carchemish was an ancient city on the west bank of the upper Euphrates River. It appears in Scripture as the place where Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon defeated the army of Pharaoh Necho of Egypt around 605 BC.

• Hazor

  [Bible]

  Hazor was a major Canaanite city north of the Sea of Galilee. It appears in Scripture in connection with Joshua's northern conquest, the war in the time of Deborah, and Solomon's building of cities.

• Feast of the Holy Innocents

  [Feasts & Seasons]

  The Feast of the Holy Innocents is a commemoration in the church calendar honoring the victims of Herod's killing of the young boys of Bethlehem (Matthew 2:16-18). The Western church observes it on December 28.

• Mount of Corruption

  [Bible]

  The Mount of Corruption is a mountain east of Jerusalem mentioned in 2 Kings 23:13. Solomon built high places for foreign gods there, and Josiah later defiled and removed them. It is commonly identified with the southern part of the Mount of Olives.

• Store City

  [Bible]

  A store city was a city built to store a nation's grain, supplies, weapons, and similar provisions. Pithom and Raamses, which the Israelites built for Pharaoh according to Exodus 1:11, are the best-known examples.

• Pithom

  [Bible]

  Pithom is an Egyptian city mentioned alongside Raamses in Exodus 1:11 as one of the treasure cities that the children of Israel built for Pharaoh under forced labor.

• Hwang Sa-yeong

  [People]

  Hwang Sa-yeong (1775–1801) was a Catholic of the late Joseon period. During the Sinyu Persecution of 1801, he wrote the "Silk Letter of Hwang Sa-yeong," an account on white silk of the course of the persecution and of proposed remedies, which he intended to send to the bishop of Beijing. He was executed the same year.

• Westminster Assembly

  [History]

  The Westminster Assembly was a council of theologians convened by the Long Parliament of England to reform the national church. It met from 1643 until about 1653 and produced the Westminster Confession of Faith, the Larger and Shorter Catechisms, and the Directory for Public Worship.