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Bashan
[Bible]Bashan is a fertile plateau east of the Jordan River and northeast of the Sea of Galilee. After the Exodus, Israel defeated its king, Og, and the land was allotted to the half-tribe of Manasseh. In Scripture, Bashan frequently serves as a symbol of abundance and strength.
Ziklag
[Bible]Ziklag was a town in the Negev region of southern Judah. Achish king of Gath gave it to David, who used it as his base while taking refuge in Philistine territory from Saul. It is known as the town raided by the Amalekites.
Chemosh
[Bible]Chemosh is a foreign deity presented in the Old Testament as the god worshiped by the Moabites. Scripture records that Solomon built a high place for Chemosh on the hill before Jerusalem and that King Josiah later defiled it.
Herod's Temple
[Bible]Herod's Temple is the Second Temple in Jerusalem as extensively renovated and expanded by Herod the Great beginning in the late first century BC. It is the "temple" of the New Testament, frequented by Jesus and the early church, and it was destroyed by the Roman army in AD 70.
Idumea
[Bible]Idumea is the Greek name for the region south of Judea where the Edomites of old migrated and settled. In the Bible it appears in Mark 3:8 as one of the places from which crowds came to Jesus.
Song of Zechariah
[Worship & Rites]The Song of Zechariah (Luke 1:68-79) is the hymn that Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, uttered when he was filled with the Holy Spirit after his son's birth. It is also called the "Benedictus," from its first Latin word.
Genesis 43
[Bible]Genesis 43 is the chapter in which, as the famine continues, Jacob's sons take Benjamin with them on a second journey down to Egypt and are entertained in Joseph's house.
Numbers 22
[Bible]Numbers 22 is the chapter in which Balak, king of Moab, summons Balaam the son of Beor to curse Israel. It contains the account of the angel of the LORD who blocks Balaam's way and of the speaking donkey.
1 Chronicles 5
[Bible]1 Chronicles 5 records the genealogies, settlements, and wars of the tribes of Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, who settled east of the Jordan. It closes with their exile to Assyria after they turned to idolatry.
Manaen
[People]Manaen is an early church figure named in Acts 13:1 as one of the prophets and teachers of the church at Antioch. He is described as one "which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch," that is, as Herod's foster brother or childhood companion.
Deuteronomy 3
[Bible]Deuteronomy 3 recounts Moses' recollection of the defeat of Og king of Bashan and the distribution of the land east of the Jordan among the tribes, and it relates how his prayer to enter the Promised Land was refused.
Deuteronomy 1
[Bible]Deuteronomy 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Deuteronomy. It opens Moses' first address in the land of Moab, in which he looks back on the wilderness journey, recounting the appointment of leaders, the spying out of the land from Kadesh Barnea, and the judgment that followed.
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.
Psalm 136
[Bible]Psalm 136 is a psalm of thanksgiving in which all 26 verses end with the refrain "for his mercy endureth for ever." It calls worshipers to give thanks to God by recounting, in turn, creation, the Exodus, the conquest of Canaan, and God's deliverance of his people.
Ezekiel 29
[Bible]Ezekiel 29 opens the book's prophecies against Egypt. It pronounces judgment on Pharaoh, who boasts that the Nile is his own, by likening him to a great crocodile, and it foretells that the land of Egypt will be handed over to Nebuchadnezzar.
Zechariah 9
[Bible]Zechariah 9 opens the second half of the Book of Zechariah (chapters 9–14). It proclaims judgment on the surrounding nations, announces a humble king who comes riding on a colt, the foal of a donkey, and promises the release and restoration of the prisoners.
Mount Gerizim
[Bible]Mount Gerizim is a mountain south of Shechem. Deuteronomy and Joshua present it as the "mountain of blessing," from which the blessing was proclaimed. It later became the center of Samaritan worship.
Chorazin
[Bible]Chorazin was a town north of the Sea of Galilee. Together with Bethsaida, it received Jesus' pronouncement of "Woe" because its people did not repent even though he had done many mighty works there.
Zichri
[People]Zichri is a Levite named in the genealogy of Exodus 6. He was a grandson of Kohath, a son of Izhar, and a brother of Korah and Nepheg.
Henry Martyn
[People]Henry Martyn (1781–1812) was a Church of England priest and a missionary who worked in India and Persia. He translated the New Testament into Urdu, Persian, and Arabic.