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• Ophrah

  [Bible]

  Ophrah is an Old Testament place name borne by two towns: the hometown of the judge Gideon and a town of the tribe of Benjamin. First Chronicles also mentions a man by this name.

• Husham

  [People]

  Husham was one of the kings who reigned over Edom before any king ruled over Israel. He came from the land of the Temanites, succeeded Jobab, and was succeeded by Hadad the son of Bedad.

• Mediator

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  A mediator is one who stands between two estranged parties and restores the relationship between them. Protestants confess Jesus Christ as the one Mediator between God and humanity.

• 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.

• Gregory I

  [People]

  Gregory I (c. 540–604) was bishop of Rome (pope) from 590 to 604. He is regarded as one of the leading Fathers of the Western Church and is also known as Gregory the Great.

• Onyx

  [Bible]

  Onyx is the name of a precious stone used to translate the Hebrew word shoham. It first appears as a stone found in the land of Havilah near Eden, and it was used on the high priest's ephod as the stone engraved with the names of the sons of Israel.

• Exodus 24

  [Bible]

  Exodus 24 is the chapter in which Israel, at Mount Sinai, pledges to keep God's words and the covenant is ratified with sprinkled blood, and in which Moses goes up into the cloud to receive the tablets of stone and remains there forty days.

• Exodus 33

  [Bible]

  Exodus 33 is the chapter in which, after the golden calf incident, God declares that He will not go with the people. Moses intercedes at the tent of meeting and receives the promise "My presence shall go with thee." He then asks to see God's glory and is permitted to see His back.

• Deuteronomy 32

  [Bible]

  Deuteronomy 32 records the song, known as the "Song of Moses," that Moses delivered before the assembly of Israel. God then tells Moses to climb Mount Nebo and view Canaan, but declares that he will not enter the land and will die there.

• Deuteronomy 33

  [Bible]

  Deuteronomy 33 is a poem in which Moses blesses the tribes of Israel one by one before his death. It opens with the appearing of the LORD, moves through blessings on the individual tribes, and closes with praise to the God who saved Israel.

• Job 9

  [Bible]

  Job 9 is the first part of Job's reply to Bildad's first speech. Job laments that no one can plead his own righteousness before God's overwhelming power, and he protests that there is no one to judge between them.

• Psalm 53

  [Bible]

  Psalm 53 is a psalm of David that laments the corruption of the fool who says there is no God and the sinfulness of all humanity, and that longs for salvation to come out of Zion. Its content is nearly identical to that of Psalm 14.

• Glory (Bible)

  [Bible]

  In the Bible, glory refers to the visible manifestation of God's majesty and presence. In the Old Testament it appears as the cloud and light that filled the tabernacle and the temple; in the New Testament it continues in the revelation of God in Jesus Christ.

• Ecclesiastes 3

  [Bible]

  Ecclesiastes 3 declares, in fourteen pairs of opposites, that there is an appointed time for everything under heaven. It then reflects on human labor and the work of God, on injustice and judgment, and on the death that comes alike to humans and animals.

• Mark 9:23

  [Bible Verses]

  Mark 9:23 is the verse in which Jesus, after the father of a demon-possessed boy pleads "if thou canst do any thing," takes up the father's words and answers that all things are possible to him that believeth. It is often cited in discussions of the power of faith and prayer, and there has been debate over whether it is quoted out of context.

• Isaiah 45

  [Bible]

  Isaiah 45 is a prophecy in which God calls Cyrus his "anointed" and uses him to set captive Israel free. The chapter also declares that there is no God besides the LORD and invites all peoples to the ends of the earth to be saved.

• Jeremiah 43

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 43 records how Johanan and the remnant of Judah rejected Jeremiah's warning as false and went down to Tahpanhes in Egypt, taking Jeremiah and Baruch with them. There Jeremiah buried large stones as a symbolic act, prophesying that Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, would invade Egypt.

• Ezekiel 13

  [Bible]

  Ezekiel 13 rebukes the prophets of Israel who prophesy on their own initiative though the LORD has not sent them, together with the women who practice divination. It likens false prophecy that proclaims peace when there is no peace to a wall daubed with untempered mortar.

• Amos 2

  [Bible]

  Amos 2 continues the oracles against the nations begun in chapter 1, extending them to Moab and Judah, and finally indicts the northern kingdom of Israel for its social injustice and ingratitude, proclaiming a judgment from which there is no escape.

• Matthew 21

  [Bible]

  A chapter in which Jesus rides a donkey into Jerusalem, cleanses the temple, and causes a fig tree to wither, then confronts the religious leaders in a dispute over his authority and through the parables of the two sons and the wicked tenants.