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Jeshua (Levite)
[People]Jeshua was a leader of the Levites who returned from the Babylonian exile. He oversaw the rebuilding of the temple, and in the time of Nehemiah he helped explain the Law to the people and led a prayer of repentance.
Korean Bible Society
[Institutions]The Korean Bible Society is a nondenominational, nonprofit Protestant foundation in South Korea that translates, publishes, and distributes the Bible. It originated in 1895 as the Korea branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society and is a member of the United Bible Societies.
Park Yune-sun
[People]Park Yune-sun (1905–1988), whose pen name was Jeongam (正岩), was a Presbyterian minister and theologian. He was the first Korean to complete and publish a commentary on the entire Old and New Testaments, and he taught Reformed theology at Koryo Theological Seminary, Chongshin, and Hapdong Theological Seminary.
Melchizedek
[People]Melchizedek is the king of Salem and "priest of the most high God" who appears in Genesis 14. He blessed Abraham and received a tithe from him, and the New Testament book of Hebrews presents him as a figure who illuminates the priesthood of Jesus Christ.
Romans 10:13-14
[Bible Verses]Romans 10:13-14 is a passage in which the apostle Paul quotes the Book of Joel to declare that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Through a series of questions moving from calling to believing, hearing, and preaching, he then shows the necessity of proclaiming the gospel. The passage is frequently cited as an invitation to salvation and as a basis for evangelism and missions.
Revelation 18:20–21
[Bible Verses]This passage calls on heaven and the saints to rejoice over the fall of Babylon the great and records a mighty angel casting a stone like a great millstone into the sea, declaring that the city shall be found no more at all. Discussion centers mainly on what Babylon signifies and how to understand the call to rejoice over its destruction.
Psalm 103:11-12
[Bible Verses]Psalm 103:11-12 is a passage from a psalm traditionally attributed to David. It compares God's lovingkindness to the height of the heavens above the earth and His removal of sin to the distance between east and west. Regarded as an expression of the completeness of divine forgiveness, it is frequently cited in preaching and as a word of comfort.
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.
The Burnt Offering on Mount Moriah
[Bible]The event recorded in Genesis 22 in which Abraham, at God's command, prepared to offer his son Isaac as a burnt offering on a mountain in the land of Moriah, until God stopped him and provided a ram in Isaac's place.
Forty Years in the Wilderness
[Bible]The forty years in the wilderness were the period the Israelites spent in the wilderness after the Exodus and before entering Canaan. The Bible portrays this period both as judgment for unbelief and as a time in which God fed and taught his people.
Golden Calf Incident
[Bible]The golden calf incident is the episode in which the Israelites, while Moses was receiving the law on Mount Sinai, had Aaron make an image of a calf out of gold and then offered sacrifices and held a feast before it. Recorded in Exodus 32, it is regarded as one of the foremost examples of idolatry in the Old Testament.
Baptism of Jesus
[Bible]The baptism of Jesus is the event in which Jesus, around the beginning of his public ministry, was baptized by John the Baptist in the Jordan River. The Gospels report that the Holy Spirit descended like a dove and that a voice was heard from heaven.
Psalm 2:12
[Bible Verses]The final verse of Psalm 2, which warns the kings of the earth to submit to the king whom the LORD has installed ("the Son") and pronounces a blessing on those who take refuge in the LORD. It is widely read as a prophecy of Christ and is frequently discussed because of the difficulty of translating the Hebrew word rendered "Son."
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.
Alexandrian School
[History]The Alexandrian School was a theological tradition of the early church centered in Alexandria, Egypt, from the second to the fifth century. It is known for allegorical interpretation, which reads Scripture spiritually and symbolically, and for a Christology that emphasized the divinity of Christ.
Cyrus Cylinder
[History]The Cyrus Cylinder is a clay cylinder inscribed in cuneiform, made after the Persian king Cyrus II conquered Babylon in 539 BC. Because it justifies the conquest and describes a policy of returning divine images and displaced peoples to their homes, it is frequently cited alongside the biblical accounts of the return from exile.
Cedar
[Bible]The cedar is a tall evergreen conifer that grows in the mountains of Lebanon. In the Bible it appears as a precious timber used to build the temple and royal palaces, and as a symbol of majesty and prosperity as well as of pride.
Wilderness of Ziph
[Bible]The Wilderness of Ziph is a tract of wilderness surrounding Ziph, a town in the hill country of Judah. It appears in 1 Samuel 23 and 26 as a place where David hid while fleeing from Saul.
Amarna Letters
[History]The Amarna Letters are a collection of clay-tablet correspondence discovered in 1887 at Tell el-Amarna in Egypt. Written in cuneiform, they were exchanged in the mid-fourteenth century BC between the Egyptian royal court and both the great powers of the ancient Near East and the rulers of the city-states of Canaan.
Codex Sinaiticus
[Bible]Codex Sinaiticus is a fourth-century Greek manuscript of the Bible. It is the oldest surviving manuscript that contains the complete New Testament and is a key source for the study of the biblical text.