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• Genesis 42

  [Bible]

  During a famine, Joseph's ten older brothers travel to Egypt to buy grain and bow before Joseph, who has become governor of the land. Accused of being spies, they return home, leaving Simeon behind as a hostage.

• 2 Kings 24

  [Bible]

  2 Kings 24 records King Jehoiakim of Judah's rebellion against King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Jehoiachin's surrender and the first large-scale deportation to Babylon, and the accession of Zedekiah.

• Moses

  [People]

  Moses is the Old Testament leader and prophet who led the people of Israel out of bondage in Egypt and received and delivered God's law at Mount Sinai.

• Romans 9:18–23

  [Bible Verses]

  In this passage Paul uses the analogy of the potter and the vessels to explain God's sovereignty in both showing mercy and hardening. It is one of the texts most frequently cited in the debate over predestination and free will.

• Red Sea

  [Bible]

  The Red Sea lies between Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula. In the Book of Exodus, it is where Israel crossed through the midst of the sea on dry ground and where the waters engulfed the pursuing Egyptian army.

• The Exodus

  [Bible]

  The Exodus is the event in which the people of Israel, led by Moses, escaped slavery in Egypt, crossed the Red Sea, and journeyed to Mount Sinai. It is regarded as the defining example of God's salvation in the Old Testament.

• Hebrews

  [Bible]

  In the Old Testament, "Hebrew" is a name for the people of Israel or their ancestors. It was used chiefly when foreigners referred to Israel or when Israelites identified themselves to foreigners. In the New Testament, it refers to Jews who spoke the Hebrew language and kept the ancestral traditions.

• Goshen

  [Bible]

  Goshen was the land in Egypt where Jacob's family settled after going down there in the time of Joseph. In Exodus it appears as the land that God set apart as the dwelling place of the Israelites when He sent the plagues.

• Pi-hahiroth

  [Bible]

  Pi-hahiroth is the place where the Israelites encamped during the Exodus just before crossing the Red Sea. Mentioned in Exodus 14 and Numbers 33, it lay near Egypt's eastern frontier.

• Shiphrah and Puah

  [People]

  Shiphrah and Puah were two Hebrew midwives named in Exodus 1. Because they feared God, they refused to obey the Egyptian king's command to kill Hebrew baby boys.

• Baal-zephon

  [Bible]

  Baal-zephon is a place near the site where the Israelites encamped before crossing the Red Sea during the Exodus. It appears in Exodus 14 and Numbers 33, and its exact location is unknown.

• People of the Land

  [Bible]

  "People of the land" translates the Hebrew phrase *'am ha'aretz*. In the Old Testament, its meaning varies with period and context: it may refer to the inhabitants of a land, the ordinary free citizens of Judah, or people outside the community of returned exiles. In later rabbinic literature, it came to denote a person ignorant of the Law.

• Eunuch

  [Bible]

  In the Bible, a eunuch is a castrated male official who served in an ancient royal court; more broadly, the term can denote any high-ranking court official. Eunuchs appear in several Old Testament court narratives and in the account of the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8.

• Zebidah

  [People]

  Zebidah was a wife of King Josiah of Judah and the mother of King Jehoiakim. She is named only once, in 2 Kings 23:36, where she is identified as the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

• Exodus 4

  [Bible]

  Exodus 4 is the chapter in which, as Moses hesitates to accept his calling, God gives him three signs and appoints his brother Aaron to help him; Moses then leaves Midian, returns to Egypt, and delivers God's word to the elders of Israel.

• 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.

• 1 Kings 11

  [Bible]

  First Kings 11 recounts how Solomon, led astray by his foreign wives, served other gods and provoked the Lord's anger. Hadad, Rezon, and Jeroboam rise up as adversaries, the division of the kingdom is foretold, and Solomon dies.

• Jehudijah

  [People]

  Jehudijah was the wife of Mered in the genealogy of the tribe of Judah in 1 Chronicles 4:18 and the mother of Jered, Heber, and Jekuthiel.