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• Magadan

  [Bible]

  Magadan is a place named in Matthew 15:39 as the destination to which Jesus traveled by boat after feeding the four thousand with seven loaves and a few fish. It is thought to have been a district on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, but its exact location is unknown.

• Zechariah 1

  [Bible]

  Zechariah 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Zechariah. It opens with a call to the people who had returned from exile to "turn ye unto me," followed by the first two of the prophet's eight night visions: the man riding a red horse among the myrtle trees, and the four horns and the four craftsmen.

• Son of Man

  [Bible]

  "Son of Man" is a biblical expression meaning literally "son of a human being." In the Old Testament it refers to a human being; in Daniel 7 it describes a figure who comes with the clouds of heaven; and in the Gospels it is the term Jesus most often used to refer to himself.

• Micaiah

  [People]

  Micaiah, the son of Imlah, was a prophet in the time of Ahab, king of Israel. When four hundred prophets predicted victory, he alone prophesied Ahab's defeat (1 Kings 22; 2 Chronicles 18).

• Bill Bright

  [People]

  Bill Bright (1921–2003) was an American evangelist who founded the student ministry Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC) in 1951. He also wrote the evangelistic booklet The Four Spiritual Laws and produced the film Jesus.

• Irenaeus

  [People]

  Irenaeus was a Church Father who served as bishop of Lyon in Gaul in the late second century. In *Against Heresies* he refuted Gnosticism and emphasized the four Gospels and the rule of faith, profoundly influencing the formation of orthodox theology in the early church.

• Herman Bavinck

  [People]

  Herman Bavinck (1854–1921) was a Dutch Reformed theologian. He taught at the Theological School in Kampen and at the Free University of Amsterdam, and he wrote the four-volume Reformed Dogmatics.

• Ruth 3

  [Bible]

  Ruth 3 is the chapter in which Ruth, following Naomi's instructions, goes to the threshing floor at night and asks Boaz to take up the responsibility of a kinsman-redeemer, and Boaz promises with an oath to do so.

• Ruth 2

  [Bible]

  While gleaning in the barley harvest fields of Bethlehem, Ruth comes to the field of Boaz, a kinsman of Elimelech, and receives his kindness. Naomi tells her that Boaz is one of their kinsman-redeemers.

• Jonah 3

  [Bible]

  Jonah 3 is the chapter in which Jonah, having received God's second call, proclaims Nineveh's destruction; the king and the people fast and repent, and God withholds the calamity.

• Jonah 1

  [Bible]

  Jonah 1 tells how Jonah, fleeing the LORD's command to go to Nineveh, boards a ship bound for Tarshish, is thrown into the sea during a storm, and is swallowed by a great fish.

• Jonah 2

  [Bible]

  Jonah 2 is the chapter containing the prayer Jonah offered to the LORD from the belly of the great fish. Jonah thanks God for delivering him from the depths of the sea and promises to pay what he has vowed; at the end of the chapter, the fish vomits Jonah out upon dry land.

• Malachi 2

  [Bible]

  Malachi 2 rebukes the priests for breaking the covenant made with Levi and reproves the people for marrying women who serve foreign gods and for dealing treacherously with the wives of their youth.

• Philippians 2

  [Bible]

  Philippians 2 is the chapter in which Paul urges the church at Philippi to unity and humility. He presents as their example Christ, who emptied himself and was obedient unto death on the cross, and he announces his plans to send Timothy and Epaphroditus.

• Philippians 3

  [Bible]

  Philippians 3 is the chapter in which Paul warns against those who insist on circumcision and, in place of the righteousness of the law, speaks of the knowledge of Christ and the righteousness that comes through faith. It closes with a picture of the life of faith as pressing toward the mark and with the hope of heavenly citizenship.

• Colossians 3

  [Bible]

  Colossians 3 urges believers who have been raised with Christ to seek those things which are above, and to put off the old man and put on the new. The chapter closes with a household code addressed to wives and husbands, children and fathers, and servants.

• 2 Timothy 3

  [Bible]

  2 Timothy 3 warns against the vices of people who will appear in the last days and against false teachers. Looking back on the persecutions he has endured, Paul urges Timothy to continue in the Scriptures he has known from childhood.

• 2 Timothy 2

  [Bible]

  2 Timothy 2 is the chapter in which Paul urges Timothy to be strong in grace, to pass the gospel on to the next generation, to endure hardship, to avoid empty disputes, and to teach with gentleness.

• Isaiah 53:5

  [Bible Verses]

  Isaiah 53:5 is the central verse of the Song of the Suffering Servant, declaring that he was wounded for our transgressions and that with his stripes we are healed. It is a key text for the atoning death of Christ. Pentecostal traditions and other denominations disagree over whether the "healing" it describes includes physical healing.

• Nadab and Abihu

  [People]

  Nadab and Abihu were the eldest and second sons of Aaron. Appointed as priests, they offered incense with "strange fire," which the LORD had not commanded, and were killed by fire that went out from before the LORD.