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• Acts 17:26

  [Bible Verses]

  A statement from Paul's speech at the Areopagus in Athens declaring that God made all the nations of humankind from one source and determined the times and the boundaries of their dwelling. It is frequently cited in discussions of humanity's common origin and of divine providence, and it also figures in debates about race.

• Shechem

  [Bible]

  Shechem was an ancient Canaanite city in the hill country of Ephraim, situated between Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal. In Scripture it appears as a major setting for covenant and political events from the patriarchal period through the division of the kingdom.

• Gilgal

  [Bible]

  Gilgal was the first place where Israel encamped after crossing the Jordan River, and it lay east of Jericho. It was the site of the memorial stones, the circumcision, and the Passover, and during the period of the judges and the early monarchy it served as a center of sacrifice and assembly.

• Talitha Koum

  [Bible]

  Talitha koum is the Aramaic phrase Jesus spoke when he raised the dead daughter of Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue. It appears in Mark 5:41 and means "Little girl, arise."

• Abraham's Bosom

  [Bible]

  Abraham's bosom is the expression used for the place to which the beggar Lazarus was carried after his death in Jesus' account of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:22-23). It is commonly understood to denote the rest and comfort the righteous enjoy after death.

• 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.

• Talmai

  [People]

  Talmai is the name of two men in the Old Testament. One was a descendant of Anak who lived in Hebron; the other was the king of Geshur, who was David's father-in-law and the maternal grandfather of Absalom.

• Pharaoh Hophra

  [People]

  Pharaoh Hophra was a king of Egypt during the final years of the kingdom of Judah. He is named only once in the Bible, in Jeremiah 44:30, and is known as the Egyptian king on whom Judah relied in its resistance to Babylon.

• Ezion-geber

  [Bible]

  Ezion-geber was a biblical port city near the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba, the eastern arm of the Red Sea. It appears as a campsite on Israel's wilderness journey and as the place where Solomon and Jehoshaphat built ships.

• Mizpah

  [Bible]

  Mizpah is an Old Testament place name meaning "watchtower" or "lookout." Several places bore this name. The best known is Mizpah in the territory of Benjamin, where Samuel assembled Israel for repentance and prayer.

• Neapolis

  [Bible]

  Neapolis was a port city on the eastern coast of Macedonia. It was the first place Paul and his companions reached after sailing from Troas, before they went on to Philippi (Acts 16:11).

• Artemas

  [People]

  Artemas was a coworker of the apostle Paul whose name appears only once in the New Testament, in Titus 3:12. Paul wrote to Titus, who was then in Crete, that he would send either Artemas or Tychicus to him.

• False Christ

  [Bible]

  "False Christ" is a biblical term for someone who claims to be the Christ (the Messiah), or is venerated as such, and leads people astray. Jesus used it in a warning during his teaching on the end times.

• Ben-ammi

  [People]

  Ben-ammi was the son born to Lot by his younger daughter. He is named in Genesis 19 and is recorded as the ancestor of the Ammonites, a people neighboring Israel.

• Ahimaaz

  [People]

  Ahimaaz was the son of Zadok, the priest during the reign of King David. During Absalom's rebellion he served as a messenger, carrying news from Jerusalem to David.

• Jotham (son of Gideon)

  [People]

  Jotham was the youngest son of Gideon (Jerubbaal) and appears in Judges 9. He alone survived when his brother Abimelech killed their brothers, and from Mount Gerizim he proclaimed the "parable of the bramble" to rebuke the men of Shechem.

• Sergius Paulus

  [People]

  Sergius Paulus was the Roman proconsul of Cyprus mentioned in Acts 13. He sought to hear the word of God from Barnabas and Saul (Paul), and Scripture records that he believed after seeing the sorcerer Elymas struck blind.

• Jobab

  [People]

  Jobab is a figure in the list of Edomite kings in Genesis 36 and 1 Chronicles 1. The son of Zerah of Bozrah, he succeeded Bela as the second king of Edom.

• Issachar

  [People]

  Issachar was a son of Jacob and Leah. His name became the name of the tribe of Issachar, one of the twelve tribes of Israel.

• Eubulus

  [People]

  Eubulus was an early Christian who appears once in Scripture, at the close of the apostle Paul's letter to Timothy (2 Timothy 4:21), as one of those sending greetings to Timothy.