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Revelation 1:16
[Bible Verses]A verse describing the figure "like unto the Son of man" (the risen Christ) in the vision John saw on Patmos. Interpretations differ on the meaning of the seven stars, the sharp two-edged sword proceeding from his mouth, and the face shining like the sun.
Leviticus 25:8–12
[Bible Verses]Leviticus 25:8–12 is a provision of the Law commanding that the fiftieth year, which follows seven sabbatical years (forty-nine years), be kept holy as the "Jubilee." A trumpet is to be sounded on the Day of Atonement to proclaim liberty, and each person is to return to his land and family. The passage is frequently cited in discussions of the ministry of Jesus and of social justice.
Ephesians 4:3–6
[Bible Verses]Ephesians 4:3–6 is a passage in which the apostle Paul urges the church at Ephesus to keep "the unity of the Spirit" and lists seven "ones": one body, one Spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God. It is among the passages most frequently cited in discussions of church unity.
Joash
[People]Joash was a king of Judah who survived Athaliah's massacre of the royal family and came to the throne at the age of seven. He repaired the temple, but according to 2 Chronicles, after the death of the high priest Jehoiada he served idols and had Jehoiada's son Zechariah put to death.
Naaman
[People]Naaman was the commander of the army of Aram described in 2 Kings 5. Afflicted with leprosy, he was healed after washing seven times in the Jordan River as the prophet Elisha instructed. Jesus refers to him in Luke 4:27.
Ephesus
[Bible]Ephesus was a Roman-era port city on the western coast of Asia Minor. Paul stayed there for about three years preaching the gospel, and the city was the destination of the Epistle to the Ephesians and the home of the first of the seven churches of Revelation.
The Fall of Jericho
[Bible]The fall of Jericho is the biblical event in which Israel, led by Joshua, marched around Jericho, the first city it encountered after entering Canaan, for seven days and then shouted, whereupon the city's walls collapsed. The account is found in Joshua 6.
Feast of Weeks
[Bible]The Feast of Weeks was one of Israel's three pilgrimage festivals, at which the firstfruits of the wheat harvest were offered. It was observed after counting seven weeks from the day the first sheaf of grain was presented, and in the New Testament it is called Pentecost.
Feast of Tabernacles
[Bible]The Feast of Tabernacles is one of the three pilgrimage feasts of Israel. Observed after the autumn harvest had been gathered, it began on the fifteenth day of the seventh month and lasted seven days, during which the people dwelt in booths in remembrance of the wilderness years. It is also called the Feast of Booths and the Feast of Ingathering.
Laodicea
[Bible]Laodicea was a city in the region of Phrygia in Asia Minor that appears in Colossians and Revelation. It was the home of one of the seven churches of Asia, which Revelation rebukes as "lukewarm."
Athanasius
[People]Athanasius (c. 296 or 298–373) was a fourth-century bishop of Alexandria. He defended the full divinity of the Son against Arianism and is known as the first to set forth the list of twenty-seven New Testament books recognized today.
New Testament Apocrypha
[Bible]The New Testament Apocrypha is a collective term for early Christian writings that tell stories about Jesus and the apostles or bear an apostle's name but were not included among the twenty-seven books of the New Testament canon.
Thyatira
[Bible]Thyatira was a city in the region of Lydia in western Asia Minor. In the Acts of the Apostles it appears as the hometown of Lydia, and in the Book of Revelation it is the site of the fourth of the seven churches.
Parables of the Kingdom
[Bible]The parables of the kingdom are the parables in which Jesus described the reign of God with the words "The kingdom of heaven is like unto…"; in the narrower sense, the term refers to the seven parables of Matthew 13.
Ignatius of Antioch
[People]Ignatius of Antioch was bishop of the church in Antioch in the early second century. While being taken to Rome for martyrdom, he wrote seven letters. He is counted among the Apostolic Fathers.
Puteoli
[Bible]Puteoli is a port city in southern Italy mentioned in Acts 28, where Paul, on his way to Rome as a prisoner, disembarked and stayed seven days with the believers there. It is the modern Pozzuoli, near Naples.
Magadan
[Bible]Magadan is a place named in Matthew 15:39 as the destination to which Jesus traveled by boat after feeding the four thousand with seven loaves and a few fish. It is thought to have been a district on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, but its exact location is unknown.
Hivites
[Bible]In the Old Testament, the Hivites are presented as descendants of Canaan and as one of the so-called "seven nations" that inhabited the land of Canaan before Israel entered it. The people of Shechem and Gibeon are identified as Hivites.
Sea of Tiberias
[Bible]The Sea of Tiberias is the name the Gospel of John uses for the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel. On its shore the risen Jesus appeared to seven disciples and charged Peter, "Feed my sheep."
Prozbul
[History]The prozbul is a Jewish legal institution devised by Hillel. Because the sabbatical-year law canceling debts every seven years had made people reluctant to lend, Hillel allowed creditors to transfer their claims to a court so that the debts could still be collected after the sabbatical year.