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Calah
[Bible]Calah is an ancient city in the land of Assyria mentioned alongside Nineveh in Genesis 10. Its Akkadian name was Kalhu, and its site is identified with the ruins of Nimrud in northern Iraq.
Tamar (Daughter of David)
[People]Tamar was the daughter of King David and Maacah, the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur, and the full sister of Absalom. Her rape by her half-brother Amnon is recorded in 2 Samuel 13.
Amittai
[People]Amittai was the father of the prophet Jonah. He is mentioned by name only twice in the Old Testament, in 2 Kings 14:25 and Jonah 1:1.
Ner
[People]Ner was a Benjamite of the house of King Saul and the father of Abner, the commander of Saul's army. First Samuel identifies him as Saul's uncle, while 1 Chronicles records him as the father of Kish.
Silvanus
[People]Silvanus was a first-century coworker who preached the gospel alongside the apostle Paul. He is named in the Pauline Epistles and in 1 Peter and is generally identified with the Silas of the Book of Acts.
Chimham
[People]Chimham was the man whom the aged Barzillai sent with King David in his place when David crossed the Jordan to return to Jerusalem after Absalom's rebellion had been put down. He appears only in 2 Samuel 19.
Mahalath
[People]Mahalath is the name of two women in the Old Testament. It most often refers to the wife of Rehoboam, king of Judah, who was a granddaughter of David (2 Chronicles 11:18). A second woman of the same name was a daughter of Ishmael who became the wife of Esau (Genesis 28:9).
Ahisamach
[People]Ahisamach is a man of the tribe of Dan mentioned in the Book of Exodus and the father of Aholiab, a craftsman who took part in making the tabernacle. His name appears only three times in Scripture, each time in a passage introducing Aholiab.
Pyrrhus
[People]Pyrrhus was a man of Berea who is named in Acts 20:4 only as the father of Sopater, one of Paul's traveling companions. He appears once in Scripture, and nothing else about his life is recorded.
Song of Simeon
[Bible]The Song of Simeon is the short hymn of praise that Simeon sang in the Temple while holding the infant Jesus, recorded in Luke 2:29-32. It is also called the Nunc Dimittis, from its opening words in Latin.
Wilderness of Ziph
[Bible]The Wilderness of Ziph is the wilderness surrounding the town of Ziph in the hill country of Judah. David hid there while Saul pursued him, met Jonathan there for the last time, and there spared Saul's life.
Edict of Thessalonica
[History]The Edict of Thessalonica was an edict issued in 380 by the Roman emperor Theodosius I together with his co-emperors. It established the Trinitarian faith of the Council of Nicaea as the orthodox faith of the empire and declared those who did not follow it to be heretics.
Kittim
[Bible]Kittim is a place name and an ethnic name found in the Old Testament. It is thought to have originally referred to the island of Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean, or to a port city there. It later came to be used more broadly for the coastlands and islands lying across the sea to the west.
Pax Romana
[History]The Pax Romana (Latin for "Roman Peace") was the period of roughly two hundred years, from the accession of Augustus (the "Caesar Augustus" of the Bible) to the late second century, during which the Roman Empire enjoyed relative stability.
Ichthys
[History]Ichthys is the Greek word for "fish" and the name of a fish-shaped symbol that early Christians used to express their faith. It remains in wide use today on church signs, car decals, and similar items.
Greece
[Bible]Greece is a biblical place name referring to the land of present-day Greece and its people. The Old Testament, in books such as Daniel, uses it for a kingdom yet to arise. The New Testament uses it for a region where Paul preached the gospel and as a name representing the Gentiles.
Michmash
[Bible]Michmash was a town in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin. It is best known as the setting of the battle that Saul and Jonathan fought against the Philistine army in 1 Samuel 13–14.
Martin Bucer
[People]Martin Bucer (1491–1551) was a German reformer who led the Reformation in Strasbourg. He labored throughout his life to reconcile the divided Reformation camps and influenced the development of Calvinism and of Anglican worship.
Matthew Henry
[People]Matthew Henry (1662–1714) was an English Nonconformist Presbyterian minister and biblical commentator. He wrote the *Exposition of the Old and New Testaments*, commonly known as *Matthew Henry's Commentary*, which is regarded as a classic of devotional commentary.
John Owen
[People]John Owen (1616–1683) was an English Puritan theologian and pastor. A leading representative of the Congregationalists (Independents), he served as vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford. He is widely known for his works on sanctification, the life of growing in holiness, such as *The Mortification of Sin*.