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• Isaiah 23

  Isaiah 23 is an oracle announcing the fall of Tyre and Sidon, the Mediterranean trading cities. It closes by declaring that Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years and then rise again, and that its profits will be set apart for the LORD.

• Salu

  Salu is a man of the tribe of Simeon mentioned in the Book of Numbers. He was the father of Zimri, who was killed along with a Midianite woman during the incident at Baal-peor.

• King's Highway

  The King's Highway is the road the Israelites under Moses referred to when they asked Edom and Sihon king of the Amorites for permission to pass through their lands. It is known as an ancient trade route running north and south across the plateau east of the Jordan River.

• Heshbon

  Heshbon was a city on the plateau east of the Jordan River that served as the royal city of Sihon, king of the Amorites, at the time of the Exodus. After Israel captured it, the city was allotted to the tribe of Reuben, and in the later prophetic books it appears as a Moabite city.

• Joshua 12

  Joshua 12 is a conquest list recording the two kings east of the Jordan whom Moses defeated (Sihon and Og) and the thirty-one kings west of the Jordan whom Joshua defeated.

• Joshua 19

  Joshua 19 records how lots were cast at Shiloh to assign the inheritances of six tribes: Simeon, Zebulun, Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and Dan. The chapter concludes the division of the land with the gift of Timnath-serah to Joshua.

• 1 Chronicles 4

  1 Chronicles 4 contains the genealogies of various clans of the tribe of Judah and of the tribe of Simeon, along with records of their settlements and migrations. It is best known for the "Prayer of Jabez" in verses 9–10.

• Ahab and Jezebel

  Ahab was a king of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the ninth century BC, and Jezebel, a native of Sidon, was his queen. The books of Kings record them as the rulers who introduced Baal worship and opposed the prophet Elijah.

• Cozbi

  Cozbi was a Midianite woman mentioned in Numbers 25, the daughter of the Midianite chief Zur. During the Baal-peor incident, she was killed by Phinehas together with Zimri, a leader of the Israelite tribe of Simeon.

• Phoenicia

  Phoenicia is a New Testament place name for the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, roughly the coastal region of present-day Lebanon. Its chief cities were Tyre and Sidon, and in Acts it appears as a gateway through which the gospel spread into Gentile lands.

• Gregory VII

  Gregory VII (Hildebrand, d. 1085) was pope from 1073 to 1085. He led reforms prohibiting simony and the appointment of clergy by secular rulers, and he clashed with Emperor Henry IV in the Investiture Controversy.

• Blastus

  Blastus is a figure mentioned only once, in Acts 12:20, as the chamberlain of King Herod (Agrippa I). When the people of Tyre and Sidon sought to make peace with the king, they conveyed their request through him.

• Hamor

  Hamor was a Hivite of the Canaanite city of Shechem and the father of Shechem, mentioned in Genesis 33–34. He was the head of the family that sold land to Jacob, and he was killed by Simeon and Levi after the incident involving Dinah.

• Adoni-bezek

  Adoni-bezek was a Canaanite king of Bezek who appears in Judges 1. Defeated by the tribes of Judah and Simeon, he had his thumbs and great toes cut off, and he confessed that God had repaid him for what he had done to other kings.

• King's Highway

  The King's Highway was an ancient trade route running north and south across the plateau east of the Jordan River. In Numbers, it is the road Moses referred to when he asked Edom and Sihon king of the Amorites for permission to pass through, promising to travel only along that way.

• Zephath

  Zephath was a town in southern Canaan mentioned in Judges 1:17. According to the biblical account, the tribes of Judah and Simeon together attacked and utterly destroyed it, after which it was renamed Hormah.

• Genesis 34

  Genesis 34 records how, after Shechem violated Jacob's daughter Dinah, Simeon and Levi used a deceitful demand for circumcision to kill the men of the city of Shechem, after which their brothers plundered the city.

• Numbers 21

  Numbers 21 records Israel's defeat of the king of Arad, the plague of fiery serpents and the bronze serpent, the journey toward the plains of Moab, and the victories over Sihon king of the Amorites and Og king of Bashan.

• Deuteronomy 2

  Deuteronomy 2 is part of Moses' retrospective account of the wilderness journey. It recounts how Israel passed through the lands of Edom, Moab, and Ammon without conflict, then defeated Sihon king of Heshbon and took his land.

• Ezekiel 28

  Ezekiel 28 contains a prophecy rebuking the pride of the king of Tyre, a lament over him, a prophecy of judgment against Sidon, and a promise to regather scattered Israel.