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• Jehudijah

  [People]

  Jehudijah was the wife of Mered in the genealogy of the tribe of Judah in 1 Chronicles 4:18 and the mother of Jered, Heber, and Jekuthiel.

• Geertruydt Jansdochter

  [People]

  Geertruydt Jansdochter was a sixteenth-century Dutch woman and the wife of the Anabaptist leader Menno Simons. After their marriage around 1536, she spent many years with her husband as a refugee fleeing persecution.

• Ethbaal

  [People]

  Ethbaal appears in 1 Kings 16:31 as "king of the Zidonians" and was the father of Jezebel, who became the wife of Ahab, king of the northern kingdom of Israel.

• Luke 8

  [Bible]

  Luke 8 is the chapter in which Jesus travels through the region of Galilee proclaiming the kingdom of God. He teaches the parable of the sower, calms a storm, heals a demon-possessed man and a woman with an issue of blood, and raises the daughter of Jairus.

• Susanna Wesley

  [People]

  Susanna Wesley (1669–1742) was an Englishwoman and the mother of John Wesley and Charles Wesley, the leaders of the Methodist movement. Known for the religious instruction of her children and for the prayer meetings she held in the rectory kitchen, she is called the "Mother of Methodism."

• Paddan-aram

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  Paddan-aram is a place in northern Mesopotamia that appears in Genesis as the homeland of Rebekah and Laban and as the place where Jacob lived in the household of his uncle Laban. It is commonly understood to refer to the region around Haran.

• Ruth Bell Graham

  [People]

  Ruth Bell Graham (1920–2007) was an American Christian author and poet. The daughter of Presbyterian medical missionaries in China, she was the wife of evangelist Billy Graham and shared in his ministry for nearly 64 years.

• Alice Rebecca Appenzeller

  [People]

  Alice Rebecca Appenzeller (1885–1950) was an American Methodist missionary and educator. The daughter of Henry Appenzeller, she was born in Seoul and served as principal of Ewha Haktang and president of Ewha Womans College, laying the foundations of higher education for women in Korea.

• On

  [Bible]

  On was an ancient Egyptian city. According to Genesis, Poti-pherah, the father of Joseph's wife Asenath, was a priest there. The city is better known by its Greek name, Heliopolis.

• Midian

  [Bible]

  Midian was a people said to descend from Midian, the son of Abraham and Keturah. In the Bible they appear both as the family into which Moses married and, during the period of the judges, as an enemy that oppressed Israel.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

  [People]

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) was an American author and abolitionist, best known for Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), a novel that indicted slavery. The daughter of the Congregationalist minister Lyman Beecher, she became an Episcopalian later in life.

• Ahab and Jezebel

  [People]

  Ahab was a king of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the ninth century BC, and Jezebel, a native of Sidon, was his queen. The books of Kings record them as the rulers who introduced Baal worship and opposed the prophet Elijah.

• Jehoiachin

  [People]

  Jehoiachin was a king of Judah who reigned for about three months before surrendering to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and being carried off to Babylon. Scripture also calls him Jeconiah and Coniah.

• Potipherah

  [People]

  Potipherah is a priest of On in Egypt mentioned in Genesis. He was the father of Asenath, the wife of Joseph, and the maternal grandfather of Manasseh and Ephraim.

• Jaalam

  [People]

  Jaalam was a son of Esau and his wife Aholibamah, an Old Testament figure recorded in Genesis 36 as one of the chiefs (dukes) of Edom.

• Park Sin-il

  [People]

  Park Sin-il was the wife of Sohn Jeong-do, a Methodist minister and Korean independence activist during the Japanese colonial period. She is known as a pastor's wife who supported her family through her own labor, sustaining her husband's theological studies and his independence work both in Korea and abroad.

• Kim Pil-rye

  [People]

  Kim Pil-rye (1891–1983) was one of the three founders of the Korean YWCA. A Presbyterian educator, she served as principal of Speer Girls' School and Chungshin Girls' School and devoted her life to secondary education for women.

• Jehoiada

  [People]

  Jehoiada was a priest in the southern kingdom of Judah during the reigns of Athaliah and Joash. When Athaliah killed the royal family, he hid the young Joash, who had survived, in the temple and raised him there. He later made Joash king and renewed the covenant with the people.

• Hwang Sa-yeong

  [People]

  Hwang Sa-yeong (1775–1801) was a Catholic of the late Joseon period. During the Sinyu Persecution of 1801, he wrote the "Silk Letter of Hwang Sa-yeong," an account on white silk of the course of the persecution and of proposed remedies, which he intended to send to the bishop of Beijing. He was executed the same year.

• 1 Kings 11

  [Bible]

  First Kings 11 recounts how Solomon, led astray by his foreign wives, served other gods and provoked the Lord's anger. Hadad, Rezon, and Jeroboam rise up as adversaries, the division of the kingdom is foretold, and Solomon dies.