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Taxes
[Bible]Taxes are money or goods collected from the people by a state or by the temple. Scripture mentions taxes under Egypt, the Israelite monarchy, Persia, and Rome, as well as the temple tax. The subject is best known through the saying "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's."
Kishon River
[Bible]The Kishon River flows through the Jezreel Valley and empties into the Mediterranean Sea north of Mount Carmel. In the Bible it appears as the place where the judge Deborah and Barak defeated the army of Sisera, and where Elijah put the prophets of Baal to death.
Stephen Langton
[People]Stephen Langton (c. 1150–1228) was an English theologian and Archbishop of Canterbury who is widely known for establishing the chapter divisions used in Bibles today.
Paleo-Hebrew Script
[Bible]The Paleo-Hebrew script is the consonantal alphabet that the people of Israel and Judah used to write Hebrew before the Babylonian exile. It predates the square script now used in the Hebrew Bible and is also called the Old Hebrew script.
Geshem
[People]Geshem was an Arabian who, together with Sanballat and Tobiah, mocked and obstructed Nehemiah's work of rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. He appears in Nehemiah 2 and 6.
Aram-naharaim
[Bible]Aram-naharaim, meaning "Aram of the two rivers," is an Old Testament place name. It is generally understood to refer to northern Mesopotamia along the upper Euphrates, particularly the region around Haran. Following the Septuagint, many translations render it as "Mesopotamia" in most of its occurrences.
Sheba (Son of Bichri)
[People]Sheba son of Bichri was a Benjamite who appears in 2 Samuel 20. Shortly after Absalom's rebellion, he rose up against David but was killed by the inhabitants of the city of Abel-beth-maachah.
Mount Pisgah
[Bible]Mount Pisgah is a mountain or ridge in the land of Moab east of the Jordan River, northeast of the Dead Sea. It is known as the place from whose summit Moses viewed the Promised Land of Canaan before his death.
Jozadak
[People]Jozadak was the son of Seraiah, the high priest in Jerusalem just before the Babylonian exile. He was carried into captivity when Judah fell, and Scripture records him as the father of Jeshua (Joshua), who became high priest after the return from exile.
Targum
[Bible]A Targum is one of the ancient Jewish translations and paraphrases of the Hebrew Old Testament into Aramaic. The Targums are generally understood to have originated as oral explanations given when Scripture was read aloud in the synagogue.
Gopher Wood
[Bible]Gopher wood is the timber God instructed Noah to use in building the ark in Genesis 6:14. Because the word appears only once in the Bible, the kind of tree it refers to is uncertain.
Shammah (son of Jesse)
[People]Shammah was the third son of Jesse of Bethlehem and an older brother of David. He appears as one of the sons whom God did not choose when Samuel anointed David.
Kingdom of Judah
[Bible]The Kingdom of Judah, usually called simply "Judah" in the Bible, was the southern kingdom, with Jerusalem as its capital, that remained when the kingdom of Israel divided after Solomon's death. Descendants of David held its throne until its fall to Babylon.
Sycamore Fig
[Bible]The sycamore fig is a tree of the fig family that grows in the warm lowlands of Egypt and Palestine. In the Bible it appears as the tree Amos tended and as the tree Zacchaeus climbed to see Jesus.
Ishmael (son of Nethaniah)
[People]Ishmael son of Nethaniah was a military commander of the royal line of Judah who, after the fall of Jerusalem, killed Gedaliah, the Babylonian-appointed governor of Judah, at Mizpah.
Amittai
[People]Amittai was the father of the prophet Jonah. He is mentioned by name only twice in the Old Testament, in 2 Kings 14:25 and Jonah 1:1.
Epaenetus
[People]Epaenetus was a Christian whom Paul greeted in Romans 16:5, calling him "my wellbeloved" and the "firstfruits" of Asia unto Christ.
Shimea (son of Jesse)
[People]Shimea was the third son of Jesse and an older brother of David. In 1 Samuel he appears as Shammah, and Scripture mentions him mainly when introducing his sons Jonadab and Jonathan.
Nergal-sharezer
[People]Nergal-sharezer was a Babylonian official mentioned in Jeremiah 39. When Jerusalem fell, he sat in the middle gate of the city, and he took part in releasing Jeremiah, who had been confined in the court of the prison.
Adullam
[Bible]Adullam was a Canaanite and later Judahite town in the lowland (the low hill country, or Shephelah) of Judah. It is best known as the site of the "cave of Adullam," where David hid from Saul.