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Third Council of Constantinople
[History]The Third Council of Constantinople was a council held from 680 to 681 in Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. It declared that Christ possesses both a divine will and a human will, condemned Monothelitism, and is counted as the sixth ecumenical council.
Evil-merodach
[People]Evil-merodach was the king of Babylon who succeeded Nebuchadnezzar. The closing portions of 2 Kings and Jeremiah record that in the year he came to the throne he released Jehoiachin, the captive king of Judah, from prison and treated him generously.
Elah (King of Israel)
[People]Elah was a king of the northern kingdom of Israel and the son of Baasha. According to 1 Kings 16, he reigned for two years and was killed by his servant Zimri while drunk. His death brought the dynasty of Baasha to an end.
Zimri (King of Israel)
[People]Zimri was a king of the northern kingdom of Israel who killed King Elah and reigned seven days in Tirzah. When Omri besieged him, he set the palace on fire and died inside it (1 Kings 16).
Zechariah 5
[Bible]Zechariah 5 contains the sixth and seventh of Zechariah's night visions: a flying scroll that punishes thieves and those who swear falsely, and a woman called "Wickedness" who is placed in an ephah basket and carried away to the land of Shinar.
Exodus 9
[Bible]Exodus 9 records the fifth (the plague on livestock), sixth (boils), and seventh (hail) of the ten plagues. Pharaoh confesses his wrongdoing, yet once the hail stops he hardens his heart again.
Iconoclastic Controversy
[History]The Iconoclastic Controversy was a theological and political dispute in the Byzantine Empire during the eighth and ninth centuries over whether it was legitimate to make and venerate images (icons) of Christ and the saints. It was largely settled with the restoration of icon veneration in 843.
Holy Convocation
[Bible]A holy convocation was a sacred assembly in which the people of Israel were called together on days appointed by God to rest from work and to worship. Leviticus 23 sets out the holy convocations of the Sabbath and of the annual feasts.
Tiras
[People]Tiras was a grandson of Noah and a son of Japheth. His name appears only in the genealogies of Genesis 10 and 1 Chronicles 1, and nothing is recorded about his life.
Maximus the Confessor
[People]Maximus the Confessor (c. 580–662) was a seventh-century Eastern Roman monk and theologian. He is called "the Confessor" because he suffered torture and exile for defending dyothelitism, the doctrine that Christ has two wills, one according to his divinity and one according to his humanity.
The Poor
[Bible]In the Bible, "the poor" refers to people who struggle to make a living and need protection. The Old Testament makes caring for them a duty of the covenant people, and the New Testament presents the proclamation of the gospel to them as a sign of the kingdom of God.
Year of Release
[Bible]The year of release is an institution prescribed in Deuteronomy 15 under which, every seventh year, Israelites were to release debts owed to them by fellow Israelites.
Sennacherib
[People]Sennacherib was a king of Assyria in the late eighth and early seventh centuries BC. During the reign of Hezekiah king of Judah, he invaded Judah and besieged and threatened Jerusalem, but he withdrew without taking the city.
Monothelitism
[Doctrine & Theology]Monothelitism was a seventh-century Christological position holding that Jesus Christ, though possessing two natures, divine and human, has only one will. It was rejected by the Third Council of Constantinople in 680–681.
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.
The Seventy Disciples
[Bible]The Seventy Disciples were a group of disciples whom Jesus Christ appointed in addition to the Twelve and sent ahead of him, two by two, into every city and place he was about to visit. They appear only in Luke 10. Some manuscripts and translations give their number as seventy-two.
Sending of the Seventy
[Bible]The Sending of the Seventy is an event in which Jesus appointed seventy others, apart from the Twelve, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every town he intended to visit. It is recorded only in Luke 10.
Seventy Elders
[Bible]The seventy elders were a group of seventy leaders chosen from among the elders of Israel in the time of Moses. They appear in Exodus 24 and Numbers 11, and a group of seventy elders also appears in Ezekiel 8.
Septuagint
[Bible]The Septuagint is a translation of the Hebrew Old Testament into ancient Greek, produced in Alexandria, Egypt, beginning around the third century BC. New Testament writers frequently followed it when quoting the Old Testament, and the early church received and used it as its Old Testament.
Crescens
[People]Crescens was a coworker of Paul who is named only once, in 2 Timothy 4:10. Scripture records only that he departed for Galatia while Paul was imprisoned in Rome.