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Daniel 10
[Bible]Daniel 10 is the chapter in which, in the third year of Cyrus, Daniel mourns and fasts for three weeks and then sees a vision of a man clothed in linen beside the river Hiddekel. It introduces the final vision, which continues through chapters 11–12.
Geneva Bible
[Bible]The Geneva Bible is an English Bible published in 1560 in Geneva, Switzerland, by English Protestant exiles. Widely read for its verse numbering and extensive marginal notes (commentary printed alongside the text), it was the most popular Bible in the English-speaking world before the King James Version.
Tyre and Sidon
[Bible]Tyre and Sidon were Phoenician port cities on the eastern Mediterranean coast, in present-day Lebanon. In the Old Testament they appear as trading partners of Israel and as objects of the prophets' pronouncements of judgment; in the New Testament they appear as Gentile regions reached by the ministry of Jesus.
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.
1 Kings 6
[Bible]1 Kings 6 records how Solomon began building the house of the LORD (the Temple) in the 480th year after the Exodus, the fourth year of his reign, and completed it in seven years. The chapter describes the Temple's dimensions, structure, and decoration in turn.
Immanuel
[Bible]Immanuel is a Hebrew name meaning "God is with us." It first appears as the name of a child given as a sign in Isaiah 7:14, and Matthew 1:23 applies it to the birth of Jesus.
Midrash
[Bible]Midrash, from a Hebrew verb meaning "to seek" or "to inquire," refers both to the method by which Jewish rabbis interpreted the biblical text and to the body of literature that collects those interpretations.
Jehovah-shammah
[Bible]Jehovah-shammah is a Hebrew name meaning "the LORD is there," given to the restored city in Ezekiel 48:35.
Ucal
[People]Ucal is an Old Testament figure named in Proverbs 30:1, together with Ithiel, as one to whom Agur delivered his sayings. He appears only once in the Bible, and nothing is known of his life.
Kerygma
[Bible]Kerygma is a Greek word meaning "proclamation" or "that which is proclaimed." In the New Testament it refers to the apostles' proclamation of the gospel, centered on the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Proverbs 28:13
[Bible Verses]Proverbs 28:13 is a proverb teaching that whoever covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy. Because it joins the confession of sin with actually turning from it, the verse is frequently cited in sermons and prayers on repentance.
Jonah 4:2
[Bible Verses]In this verse Jonah, angered that Nineveh has been spared, tells God why he had fled. The verse is frequently discussed for its irony, since Jonah turns the confession of God's grace from Exodus 34 into grounds for complaint, and for its statement that God "repentest thee of the evil."
Epaenetus
[People]Epaenetus was a Christian whom Paul greeted in Romans 16:5, calling him "my wellbeloved" and the "firstfruits" of Asia unto Christ.
Bitumen
[Bible]Bitumen is a black, sticky, naturally occurring asphalt substance found in the earth. In the Bible it served as a waterproofing agent and adhesive for Noah's ark, the Tower of Babel, and the ark of bulrushes in which the infant Moses was placed.
Jeremiah 1:6-10
[Bible Verses]A passage in which the prophet Jeremiah hesitates at his call, protesting "I am a child," and God promises to be with him and puts His words in his mouth. It is frequently cited in sermons on calling and mission.
Matthew 2
[Bible]Matthew 2 recounts how the wise men from the east came to worship the infant Jesus, and how Joseph's family fled from Herod to Egypt before settling in Nazareth.
Joppa
[Bible]Joppa was a port city on the Mediterranean coast. In the Old Testament it was the port through which timber for the Temple arrived and the place where Jonah boarded a ship; in the New Testament it was where Peter raised Tabitha from the dead and received the vision that opened the way for the mission to the Gentiles.
Isaiah 20
[Bible]Isaiah 20 records a symbolic act performed at God's command in the year Assyria captured Ashdod: for three years Isaiah went about naked and barefoot as a sign that Egypt and Cush would be led away captive by Assyria.
2 Samuel 13
[Bible]2 Samuel 13 recounts how Amnon, David's firstborn son, violates his half-sister Tamar, and how Tamar's brother Absalom kills Amnon two years later and flees to Geshur.
1 Kings 3
[Bible]1 Kings 3 recounts how Solomon offers a thousand burnt offerings at Gibeon, asks God for wisdom in a dream and receives it, and then wisely settles a dispute between two women over a single child.