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• Proverbs 29

  [Bible]

  Proverbs 29 is the final chapter of the collection of Solomon's proverbs compiled by the men of Hezekiah (chapters 25–29). In brief sayings, it addresses justice in those who rule, the discipline of children and servants, and the dangers of anger and pride, and it contrasts the fear of man with trust in the LORD.

• Proverbs 27

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  Proverbs 27 belongs to the collection of Solomon's proverbs compiled by the men of Hezekiah (chapters 25–29). It contains a warning against boasting about tomorrow, teachings on a friend's rebuke and on friendship, sayings about praise and testing, and an exhortation to tend one's flocks and property.

• Amos 7

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  Amos 7 contains three of Amos's visions (locusts, fire, and a plumb line), along with the account of Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, who tries to silence Amos's prophecy and in turn receives a word of judgment.

• Jonah 3

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  Jonah 3 is the chapter in which Jonah, having received God's second call, proclaims Nineveh's destruction; the king and the people fast and repent, and God withholds the calamity.

• 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.

• Genesis 14

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  Genesis 14 tells how a coalition of four kings attacks Sodom and carries off Lot, and how Abram rescues him with 318 men. On Abram's return, Melchizedek king of Salem blesses him, and Abram gives him a tenth of what he has gained.

• Genesis 20

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  Genesis 20 recounts how Abraham, while sojourning in Gerar, presented his wife Sarah as his sister. Abimelech, king of Gerar, took her, but after God warned him in a dream, he returned her.

• 2 Samuel 3

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  2 Samuel 3 recounts how Abner, the power behind the house of Saul, attempts to go over to David but is murdered by Joab, and how David mourns him and publicly declares his own innocence.

• 2 Samuel 17

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  2 Samuel 17 is the chapter in which the counsel of Ahithophel and the counsel of Hushai are set against each other before Absalom. Hushai's counsel is adopted, David escapes across the Jordan, and Ahithophel takes his own life.

• 2 Kings 7

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  2 Kings 7 tells how, while Samaria lay starving under an Aramean siege, Elisha prophesied that the price of grain would fall sharply the next day, and how, just as he had said, the Aramean army fled and the siege was lifted.

• Severance Hospital

  [History]

  Severance Hospital traces its origins to Jejungwon, a hospital established in 1885 by the Joseon government and staffed by medical missionaries of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterian). In 1904 a new hospital, named after its donor, Louis Severance, opened outside Namdaemun (the South Gate) in Seoul.

• Ezra 8

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  Ezra 8 records the families who returned from Babylon with Ezra, the gathering of Levites and the fast at the river of Ahava, and the entrusting of the temple offerings, which were brought safely to Jerusalem.

• Esther 9

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  Esther 9 records how, on the thirteenth day of the month Adar, the Jews prevailed over the enemies who had sought to harm them, and how Mordecai and Esther established Purim as a feast to be kept every year in commemoration.

• Esther 4:14

  [Bible Verses]

  Esther 4:14 records Mordecai's words to Esther as she hesitates to go before the king, asking whether she may have come to her royal position "for such a time as this." The verse is frequently cited both for suggesting divine providence without naming God and as a text about calling.

• Jonah 3:10

  [Bible Verses]

  This verse records that when the people of Nineveh turned from their evil way, God did not bring upon them the disaster He had announced. It is frequently cited as a text demonstrating the efficacy of repentance, and interpreters differ over how the statement that God "repented" relates to the immutability of God.

• 2 Chronicles 3:1

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  This verse states that Solomon began building the temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite that David had prepared. It is frequently cited as a key text linking the temple site to Abraham's offering of Isaac on Moriah and to David's altar.

• Talitha Koum

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  Talitha koum is the Aramaic phrase Jesus spoke when he raised the dead daughter of Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue. It appears in Mark 5:41 and means "Little girl, arise."

• Tyre

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  Tyre was a Phoenician port city on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. In the Old Testament it appears as a neighboring kingdom that dealt with David and Solomon and as a target of the prophets' oracles of judgment. In the New Testament it is a Gentile region visited by Jesus and Paul.

• Idumea

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  Idumea is the Greek name for the region south of Judea where the Edomites of old migrated and settled. In the Bible it appears in Mark 3:8 as one of the places from which crowds came to Jesus.

• Achmetha

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  Achmetha is a city in the province of Media mentioned in Ezra 6:2. The decree of Cyrus authorizing the rebuilding of the temple was discovered in its palace. It was the ancient capital of Media, commonly known as Ecbatana.