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Asaiah
[People]Asaiah was an official of King Josiah of Judah. He appears in 2 Kings 22 and 2 Chronicles 34 as a member of the delegation that went to the prophetess Huldah to inquire of the LORD concerning the book of the law found in the Temple.
Tobias
[People]Tobias is the protagonist of the Book of Tobit, one of the deuterocanonical books (the Apocrypha) of the Old Testament, and the son of Tobit. Guided on a journey by the angel Raphael, he married Sarah and cured his blind father.
Ash Wednesday
[Feasts & Seasons]Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, the Wednesday falling forty-six days before Easter. Its name comes from the rite of placing ashes on the forehead as a sign of repentance.
2 Samuel
[Bible]Second Samuel is a historical book of the Old Testament that records the period after Saul's death, when David became king over Judah and then over all Israel. It has twenty-four chapters.
Epistle to Philemon
[Bible]The Epistle to Philemon is the eighteenth book of the New Testament. In this short letter of one chapter and twenty-five verses, the apostle Paul, writing from prison, asks Philemon to receive his slave Onesimus as a brother.
1 Peter
[Bible]First Peter is one of the General Epistles of the New Testament, a five-chapter letter that urges Christians scattered amid persecution and suffering to hold fast to hope and to live holy lives.
Augsburg Confession
[Doctrine & Theology]The Augsburg Confession is the confession of faith that the Lutheran princes presented to Emperor Charles V at the Imperial Diet of Augsburg in the Holy Roman Empire in 1530. It is the foundational doctrinal standard of the Lutheran Church.
Lot
[People]Lot is the nephew of Abraham in the Book of Genesis. He lived in Sodom, was rescued when the city was destroyed, and is recorded as the ancestor of the Moabites and the Ammonites.
Zerubbabel
[People]Zerubbabel was a descendant of the royal house of David who led the people of Judah home from the Babylonian exile. He served as governor of Judah during the Persian period and, together with the high priest Jeshua, led the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem.
Pontius Pilate
[People]Pontius Pilate was the Roman governor of Judea who tried Jesus Christ and sentenced him to crucifixion. He appears in all four Gospels, and his name is included in the Apostles' Creed.
Baruch
[People]Baruch was the scribe of the prophet Jeremiah in the final years of the southern kingdom of Judah. He wrote on a scroll the prophecies Jeremiah dictated and read them aloud to the people in the temple.
Gehazi
[People]Gehazi is the servant of the prophet Elisha in 2 Kings. He is known for lying to obtain the gifts that Naaman, the commander of the Syrian army, had intended for Elisha, and for being struck with leprosy as a result.
Jerusalem
[Bible]Jerusalem is a city in the hill country of Judah. David made it his capital and Solomon built the temple there, making it the center of Israel's faith. Jesus was crucified and rose again there, and at the close of the Bible it becomes the symbol of the "New Jerusalem."
Megiddo
[Bible]Megiddo was an ancient city on the edge of the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel. The Old Testament presents it as the site of several battles, and the name "Armageddon" in Revelation 16:16 is commonly understood to derive from it.
Samaritan Pentateuch
[Bible]The Samaritan Pentateuch is the Hebrew text of the Five Books of Moses that the Samaritan community has preserved from generation to generation. It agrees with the Masoretic Text of Judaism in most respects but differs in certain places, notably in passages that exalt Mount Gerizim as the place of worship.
Ish-bosheth
[People]Ish-bosheth was a son of Saul who, after Saul's death, was made king over Israel by Abner, the commander of Saul's army, and reigned for about two years. In 1 Chronicles he appears under the name Eshbaal.
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.
Dan
[Bible]Dan was a city at the northern extremity of the land of Israel. The tribe of Dan captured Laish and gave it this name, and it was there that Jeroboam, king of the northern kingdom of Israel, set up one of his golden calves.
Iddo (Prophet)
[People]Iddo was a prophet of the early divided kingdom who is called both a "seer" and a "prophet" in 2 Chronicles. He is said to have left writings recording the events of the reigns of Solomon, Rehoboam, and Abijah. Several other people in the Bible bear the same name.
Trophimus
[People]Trophimus was a Gentile Christian from Ephesus who appears in Acts and 2 Timothy. He accompanied Paul on his final journey to Jerusalem, and a mistaken assumption about him led to Paul's arrest.