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• Red Heifer

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  The red heifer is a purification ordinance found in Numbers 19. A red heifer without blemish was burned whole outside the camp, and its ashes were mixed with water and used to purify a person who had become unclean through contact with a dead body.

• Jeconiah

  [People]

  Jeconiah, also called Jehoiachin and Coniah, was one of the last kings of Judah. After reigning for three months, he was taken captive to Babylon and was released from prison thirty-seven years later. His name also appears in the genealogy of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew.

• Hiram

  [People]

  Hiram was king of Tyre, a Phoenician port city, during the reigns of David and Solomon. He supplied timber and craftsmen for the building of the Temple and the royal palace in Jerusalem, and he joined Solomon in maritime trade.

• Elihu

  [People]

  Elihu is a young man in Job 32–37 who steps forward after the debate between Job and his three friends has ended and delivers a lengthy discourse. He is introduced as the son of Barachel the Buzite.

• Valley of Jehoshaphat

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  The Valley of Jehoshaphat is the valley named in Joel 3 as the place where God gathers all nations for judgment. The name means "the LORD judges." Tradition has long identified it with the Kidron Valley east of Jerusalem.

• Pekah

  [People]

  Pekah, the son of Remaliah, became king of the northern kingdom of Israel through a coup. His alliance with Rezin king of Aram against Judah forms the background of the Immanuel prophecy in Isaiah 7.

• Gihon

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  Gihon is the name of two places in the Bible: in Genesis it is the second of the four rivers that branched off from the river flowing out of the Garden of Eden, and in Kings and Chronicles it is a spring beside the City of David in Jerusalem.

• Caesar

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  Caesar is a title of the Roman emperor in the New Testament. It appears in Jesus' exchange about paying tribute, in the trial of Jesus, and in Paul's appeal to the emperor.

• Wilderness of Sinai

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  The Wilderness of Sinai is the wilderness where Israel, after the Exodus, encamped before Mount Sinai for nearly a year, received the Law, and set up the tabernacle. It is the setting of the narrative that runs from Exodus 19 through Numbers 10.

• Battle of Ai

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  The Battle of Ai is an event recorded in Joshua 7–8. After the fall of Jericho, Israel attacked the small city of Ai and was defeated once because of Achan's sin. Once the sin had been dealt with, Israel captured the city by means of an ambush.

• Obed-edom

  [People]

  Obed-edom was the owner of the house where the Ark of the Covenant remained for three months during the reign of King David. Scripture records that God blessed him and his entire household during that time. Chronicles also presents him as a Levite gatekeeper.

• Tobiah

  [People]

  Tobiah is an Ammonite official in the Book of Nehemiah. Together with Sanballat and Geshem, he opposed the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem. He later occupied a chamber in the temple and was expelled by Nehemiah.

• Judas Maccabeus

  [People]

  Judas Maccabeus was the leader of the Jewish revolt against the Seleucid king Antiochus IV in the second century BC. He recaptured the Temple in Jerusalem and rededicated it.

• Queen Mother

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  The queen mother is a biblical term for a woman who, as the mother of the king, held an official position at the royal court. It is best known from the account of King Asa of Judah removing his mother Maachah from this position.

• Nisan

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  Nisan is the first month of Israel's religious calendar, designated at the time of the Exodus as "the first month of the year." Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread fall in this month, and the Pentateuch calls the same month "Abib."

• Cedar

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  The cedar is a tall evergreen conifer that grows in the mountains of Lebanon. In the Bible it appears as a precious timber used to build the temple and royal palaces, and as a symbol of majesty and prosperity as well as of pride.

• Hophni and Phinehas

  [People]

  Hophni and Phinehas were the two sons of Eli who served as priests at Shiloh at the close of the period of the judges. They sinned in several ways, including treating the sacrifices with contempt, and both died when the Ark of the Covenant was captured in battle against the Philistines.

• Stoning

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  Stoning is a method of execution in which an offender is put to death by a group of people throwing stones. The Old Testament law prescribed it for a number of grave offenses, and in the New Testament it appears in the account of the woman taken in adultery and in the martyrdom of Stephen.

• Hezekiah's Tunnel

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  Hezekiah's Tunnel is an underground water channel in Jerusalem, generally thought to have been cut through rock during the reign of King Hezekiah of Judah to carry water from the Gihon Spring to the Pool of Siloam inside the city. It is also called the Siloam Tunnel.

• Arabia

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  Arabia is a biblical place name for the desert regions east and south of Israel and for the peoples who lived there. In the New Testament it is known as the place where Paul went after his conversion (Galatians 1:17).