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• Ephah

  [Bible]

  The ephah is an Old Testament dry measure of volume used for grain and flour. It appears both in sacrificial regulations and in everyday reckonings of grain, and the prophets condemned the falsified ephah as a symbol of injustice.

• 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.

• Writings (Hebrew Bible)

  [Bible]

  The Writings are the third of the three divisions of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), following the Law and the Prophets. Called Ketuvim ("things written") in Hebrew, the division comprises eleven books by Jewish reckoning, including Psalms, Job, and Proverbs.

• Sign

  [Bible]

  A sign is a mark that reveals God's will or shows in advance what is to come. In the Old Testament the term refers to signs of the covenant and to the symbolic acts of the prophets; in the New Testament it extends to the signs performed by Jesus and to the signs of the end times.

• Obadiah (Steward of Ahab's Household)

  [People]

  Obadiah was the official in charge of the royal household of King Ahab of the northern kingdom of Israel. When Jezebel was killing the prophets of the LORD, he hid one hundred prophets in caves and fed them. He appears in 1 Kings 18.

• 1 Kings 18

  [Bible]

  1 Kings 18 recounts how, after three years of drought, Elijah confronts the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel; the fire of the LORD falls, and a great rain then comes in answer to his prayer.

• 2 Chronicles 18

  [Bible]

  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.

• Fivefold Ministry

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The fivefold ministry is a collective term for the five offices named in Ephesians 4:11: apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers. Denominations and theological traditions differ on whether these offices continue today.

• Jeremiah 6

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 6 is a prophecy warning that an enemy from the north will besiege Jerusalem. It rebukes a people who refuse to repent, along with the prophets and priests who offer false comfort by saying "Peace."

• Jeremiah 14

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 14 is set against the backdrop of a drought that has struck Judah. It records the people's confession of sin and their lament, the LORD's reply that He will not accept their prayer, and His judgment on the false prophets who proclaim "peace."

• Jeremiah 23

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 23 rebukes the shepherds of Judah who scattered the people, promises a "righteous Branch" to be raised up from David, and then delivers an extended indictment of the false prophets whom God did not send.

• Jeremiah 29

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 29 contains the letter Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the exiles in Babylon. It urges them to build houses in exile and to pray for the peace of the city, promises their return after seventy years, and rebukes the false prophets.

• Micah 2

  [Bible]

  Micah 2 pronounces judgment on those who seize the fields and houses of others, indicts the people who try to silence prophecy as well as the false prophets, and promises that the remnant of Israel will be gathered again.

• Zechariah 13

  [Bible]

  Zechariah 13 is a prophecy that in that day a fountain will be opened to cleanse sin, idols and false prophets will disappear, and, after the shepherd is struck and the sheep are scattered, the surviving third will be refined and become God's people.

• Molech

  [Bible]

  Molech is a foreign deity, or the name of a type of sacrifice, mentioned in the Old Testament in connection with the offering of children by fire. The Law strictly forbids the practice, and the books of Kings and the Prophets record it as a leading example of Israel's apostasy.

• Deuteronomy 18

  [Bible]

  Deuteronomy 18 sets out the portion due to the Levitical priests, forbids the divination and necromancy (calling up the spirits of the dead) practiced by the nations of Canaan, and records God's promise to raise up a prophet like Moses, together with the criteria for distinguishing true prophets from false ones.

• Matthew 7

  [Bible]

  Matthew 7 is the final chapter of the Sermon on the Mount. It contains the teaching against judging others, the exhortation to ask, seek, and knock in prayer, the Golden Rule, the narrow gate, the warning about false prophets and their fruits, and the parable of the house built on the rock.

• Zechariah

  [Bible]

  Zechariah is the thirty-eighth book of the Old Testament. A prophetic book, it encourages the people of Judah who had returned from the Babylonian exile to rebuild the Temple and prophesies concerning the Messiah and the restoration of the kingdom of God.

• Orphans and Widows

  [Bible]

  "Orphans and widows" is a biblical word pair referring to people whose livelihood and legal protection were weakened by the loss of a husband or father. Often grouped with the sojourner, they represent the socially vulnerable for whom God shows special care.

• The Floating Axe Head

  [Bible]

  The floating axe head is a miracle recorded in 2 Kings 6:1-7, in which Elisha made a borrowed iron axe head that had fallen into the Jordan River float to the surface by throwing a stick into the water.