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• Judges 18

  Judges 18 tells how the tribe of Dan, still seeking territory, seized the idols and the Levite priest from Micah's house, conquered the northern city of Laish, renamed it Dan, and set up the graven image there.

• 2 Chronicles 18

  This chapter recounts how Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, joins Ahab, king of Israel, in the battle for Ramoth-gilead. Unlike the four hundred prophets, the prophet Micaiah foretells defeat, and Ahab, fighting in disguise, is struck by an arrow and dies.

• Alvin Plantinga

  Alvin Plantinga (born 1932) is an American analytic philosopher. A leading figure in "Reformed epistemology," which defends the rationality of belief in God, he received the Templeton Prize in 2017.

• Josh McDowell

  Josh McDowell (born 1939) is an American evangelical Christian apologist and evangelist. He became widely known through his 1972 book Evidence That Demands a Verdict and lectured at universities around the world as a speaker with Campus Crusade for Christ.

• Psalm 60

  Psalm 60 is a communal prayer that laments military defeat and the anguish of seeming abandonment by God, then appeals for help by holding fast to God's promise to apportion the land.

• Nahum

  Nahum is the seventh of the twelve Minor Prophets of the Old Testament. It proclaims the coming destruction of Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian Empire, and consists of three chapters.

• Jonathan

  Jonathan was the eldest son of Saul, the first king of Israel. Recorded in 1 and 2 Samuel, he distinguished himself by his courage in battle against the Philistines and became David's friend, entering into a covenant with him.

• Minor Prophets

  The Minor Prophets are the twelve prophetic books, Hosea through Malachi, that appear at the end of the Old Testament. The name refers to the books' brevity, not to any lesser importance.

• Leviticus 2

  Leviticus 2 sets out the regulations for the grain offering, an offering presented from grain. It covers how to offer fine flour, baked cakes, and the firstfruits of grain, prohibits leaven and honey, and prescribes the salt of the covenant.

• Judges 19

  Judges 19 tells of a Levite who, while returning from Bethlehem with his concubine, stops in Gibeah, a town of the tribe of Benjamin. There a mob abuses the concubine, and she dies. The Levite then divides her body into twelve pieces and sends them throughout all the territory of Israel.

• Psalm 56

  Psalm 56 is a lament whose superscription attributes it to David when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Amid the threats of his enemies, the confession "In God I have put my trust; I will not fear" recurs as a refrain.

• Psalm 57

  Psalm 57 is a lament whose superscription sets it at the time when David hid in a cave while fleeing from Saul. It opens with a prayer to take refuge in the shadow of God's wings and closes with a vow to awaken the dawn and praise the Lord among the nations.

• Judges 21:25

  The final verse of the Book of Judges, which sums up the disorder of the period of the judges by stating that there was no king and that every man did that which was right in his own eyes. It is frequently cited in discussions of the monarchy, the rule of God, and moral relativism.

• Daniel (Biblical Figure)

  Daniel was a man from Judah who, according to the Bible, served in the royal court during the Babylonian exile. He is widely known for interpreting dreams and for the account of the lions' den, and he is the central figure of the Book of Daniel.

• Daniel 3:24–28

  This passage describes how the three men cast into King Nebuchadnezzar's fiery furnace walk out unharmed and how the king then praises their God. It is frequently cited in discussions of the identity of the "fourth" figure who appears in the fire and of faithfulness under persecution.

• Urijah (prophet)

  Urijah, the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath-jearim, was a prophet in the reign of King Jehoiakim of Judah. He prophesied judgment in the same terms as Jeremiah and fled to Egypt, but he was brought back and put to death by the king's sword. He appears only in Jeremiah 26.

• Blaise Pascal

  Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) was a French mathematician, scientist, and Catholic religious writer. He sided with the Jansenists and criticized the Jesuits, and his Christian apologetic work, the Pensées, was published after his death.

• Louis Berkhof

  Louis Berkhof (1873–1957) was a Dutch-born American Reformed theologian. He served as professor and president of Calvin Theological Seminary, and his major work, *Systematic Theology*, has been widely read in Presbyterian theological education in Korea.

• 1 Samuel 13

  1 Samuel 13 is the chapter in which war with the Philistines begins early in Saul's reign. Failing to wait for Samuel at Gilgal, Saul offers the burnt offering himself, and Samuel declares that his kingdom will not continue.

• Shadrach

  Shadrach is a Judahite who appears in the Book of Daniel; his original name was Hananiah. One of Daniel's three friends, he and Meshach and Abednego refused to bow down to a golden image and were cast into a fiery furnace, from which they came out alive.