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• Brook Besor

  [Bible]

  The Brook Besor is a wadi in southern Judah mentioned in 1 Samuel 30. When David pursued the Amalekites, two hundred of his men were too exhausted to cross it and stayed behind there.

• London Baptist Confession of Faith

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The London Baptist Confession of Faith is a confession of faith jointly produced by Calvinistic Baptist churches in London, England, in the seventeenth century. There are two confessions: the First Confession of 1644 and the Second Confession, formally adopted in 1689. The term "1689 Confession" usually refers to the Second Confession.

• Byzantine Empire

  [History]

  The Byzantine Empire is the name later given to the Eastern Roman Empire, which had Constantinople as its capital and endured until 1453. Early ecumenical councils were held there, and the Orthodox tradition developed within it.

• Brook Cherith

  [Bible]

  The Brook Cherith is a brook near the Jordan River where the prophet Elijah hid at God's command when a drought began during the reign of King Ahab of the northern kingdom of Israel. There he was sustained by food that ravens brought him. The account appears in 1 Kings 17.

• Census of Quirinius

  [Bible]

  The census in Luke 2 was a registration of inhabitants carried out by order of the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus. Because of this census, Joseph and Mary traveled to Bethlehem, where Jesus was born.

• Church of Antioch

  [History]

  The church of Antioch was an early church founded in the first century in Antioch, a major city of Syria. It was there that believers were first called "Christians," and it was this church that sent Barnabas and Paul on the mission to the Gentiles.

• Joshua 20

  [Bible]

  Joshua 20 is the chapter in which, at the Lord's command, six cities of refuge are designated for those who have killed someone by accident. It also records the procedure for seeking refuge and how long the fugitive must remain there.

• Seven Trumpets

  [Bible]

  The seven trumpets are the trumpets blown in succession by seven angels in Revelation 8–11, together with the plagues and events that follow each one. They form the second set of seven judgments, placed between the seven seals and the seven bowls.

• Lamentations 5

  [Bible]

  The final chapter of Lamentations, a communal prayer in which the people who remain after the fall of Jerusalem lay their hunger and disgrace before God and plead for restoration: "Turn thou us unto thee."

• 1 Corinthians 12:4-11

  [Bible Verses]

  A passage in which Paul tells the church at Corinth that there are diversities of spiritual gifts but one Spirit who gives them, and that their purpose is the benefit of the whole community. Because it contains a list of nine gifts, it is frequently cited in the debate between cessationism and continuationism.

• Bethel

  [Bible]

  Bethel is a place in the land of Canaan whose name means "house of God." Jacob encountered God there in a dream, and after the division of the kingdom it became the site of one of the golden calf altars of the northern kingdom of Israel.

• Gibeon

  [Bible]

  Gibeon was a Canaanite city north of Jerusalem in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin. There its inhabitants deceived Joshua into making a treaty, Solomon asked for wisdom in a dream, and the tabernacle and the bronze altar were once located.

• Cenchreae

  [Bible]

  Cenchreae was the eastern port of Corinth in New Testament times. Paul had his hair cut there because of a vow (Acts 18:18), and it was home to the church that Phoebe served (Romans 16:1).

• 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.

• Samaritan Woman

  [People]

  The Samaritan woman is an unnamed woman in John 4 who spoke with Jesus at Jacob's well near the Samaritan town of Sychar and then told the people of her town about him.

• Annunciation

  [Bible]

  The Annunciation is the event recorded in Luke 1 in which the angel Gabriel announced to Mary, a virgin of Nazareth, that she would conceive a son by the Holy Spirit and name him Jesus.

• Antichrist

  [Bible]

  In the Epistles of John, "antichrist" refers to anyone who denies or opposes Christ. Christian tradition has linked the term to an adversary expected at the end of the age and has interpreted it in a variety of ways.

• Book of Life

  [Bible]

  The Book of Life is the heavenly register in which, according to Scripture, God records the names of those who will be saved. The concept begins with "thy book" in the Old Testament and culminates in "the Lamb's book of life" in Revelation.

• Valley of Elah

  [Bible]

  The Valley of Elah is a valley in western Judah where Saul's Israelite army faced the Philistine army in 1 Samuel 17. It is known as the place where David struck down Goliath.

• Song of Moses

  [Bible]

  The Song of Moses refers to two Old Testament poems attributed to Moses: the hymn of deliverance sung after the crossing of the Red Sea (Exodus 15) and the song bearing witness to the covenant that he delivered before his death (Deuteronomy 32).