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• Tetrarch

  [Bible]

  Tetrarch is a New Testament term for a ruler under the Roman Empire who governed a portion of a divided territory. It is used chiefly of Herod Antipas, who ruled Galilee.

• 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.

• Praetorian Guard

  [Bible]

  The praetorian guard is a term in Philippians 1:13 translating the Greek word praitōrion. It is commonly interpreted as referring to the soldiers of the imperial guard who protected the Roman emperor.

• Seraph

  [Bible]

  The seraphim are six-winged heavenly beings who, in the vision of Isaiah 6, stand above the throne of God and cry "Holy" three times. The singular is seraph; the Hebrew plural form seraphim is also commonly used.

• Jonah 4:2

  [Bible Verses]

  In this verse Jonah, angered that Nineveh has been spared, tells God why he had fled. The verse is frequently discussed for its irony, since Jonah turns the confession of God's grace from Exodus 34 into grounds for complaint, and for its statement that God "repentest thee of the evil."

• Sign

  [Bible]

  A sign is a token that God displays to reveal His will and power, or the authority of one He has sent. The Gospel of John calls the miracles of Jesus "signs" and records them as evidence intended to lead people to faith.

• Arpad

  [Bible]

  Arpad was an Aramean city in ancient northern Syria, north of Hamath. The Old Testament frequently mentions it alongside Hamath as an example of a city conquered by Assyria.

• George MacDonald

  [People]

  George MacDonald (1824–1905) was a Scottish Congregationalist minister and author. His works, including Phantastes and The Princess and the Goblin, have earned him recognition as a pioneer of modern fantasy literature, and he is known as the writer whom C. S. Lewis regarded as his master.

• Geneva Bible

  [Bible]

  The Geneva Bible is an English Bible published in 1560 in Geneva, Switzerland, by English Protestant exiles. Widely read for its verse numbering and extensive marginal notes (commentary printed alongside the text), it was the most popular Bible in the English-speaking world before the King James Version.

• False Prophet

  [Bible]

  A false prophet, in biblical usage, is a prophet who claims to speak the word of God without having been sent by God, or who leads people away from God.

• Bitumen

  [Bible]

  Bitumen is a black, sticky, naturally occurring asphalt substance found in the earth. In the Bible it served as a waterproofing agent and adhesive for Noah's ark, the Tower of Babel, and the ark of bulrushes in which the infant Moses was placed.

• Epaenetus

  [People]

  Epaenetus was a Christian whom Paul greeted in Romans 16:5, calling him "my wellbeloved" and the "firstfruits" of Asia unto Christ.

• Desmond Tutu

  [People]

  Desmond Tutu (1931–2021) was a South African Anglican archbishop. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his opposition to apartheid, the system of racial segregation, and served as chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

• Psalm 3

  [Bible]

  Psalm 3 is an eight-verse prayer presented as a psalm David composed when he fled from his son Absalom. Facing many enemies, the psalmist confesses the LORD as his shield and asks for deliverance.

• Psalm 95

  [Bible]

  Psalm 95 calls the congregation to praise and worship before the LORD. It then holds up the wilderness generation, which hardened its heart at Meribah and Massah, as a warning and urges its hearers to hear God's voice today.

• 2 Samuel 13

  [Bible]

  2 Samuel 13 recounts how Amnon, David's firstborn son, violates his half-sister Tamar, and how Tamar's brother Absalom kills Amnon two years later and flees to Geshur.

• Matthew 2

  [Bible]

  Matthew 2 recounts how the wise men from the east came to worship the infant Jesus, and how Joseph's family fled from Herod to Egypt before settling in Nazareth.

• Jehovah-shammah

  [Bible]

  Jehovah-shammah is a Hebrew name meaning "the LORD is there," given to the restored city in Ezekiel 48:35.

• Higgaion

  [Bible]

  Higgaion is a Hebrew word that appears together with "Selah" in Psalm 9:16. It is thought to be either a musical term or a word indicating meditation, but its precise meaning is uncertain.

• Messiah

  [Bible]

  Messiah, from the Hebrew for "anointed one," is a title applied in the Old Testament to kings, priests, and others; it later came to designate the deliverer whom God would send. The New Testament confesses Jesus as the Messiah, that is, the Christ.