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• Shiphrah and Puah

  [People]

  Shiphrah and Puah were two Hebrew midwives named in Exodus 1. Because they feared God, they refused to obey the Egyptian king's command to kill Hebrew baby boys.

• Brook Cherith

  [Bible]

  The Brook Cherith is a brook near the Jordan River where the prophet Elijah hid at God's command when a drought began during the reign of King Ahab of the northern kingdom of Israel. There he was sustained by food that ravens brought him. The account appears in 1 Kings 17.

• Tirzah

  [Bible]

  Tirzah was a city in the northern hill country of Samaria in ancient Israel. The household of Jeroboam resided there, and it served as the royal capital of the kings of the northern kingdom of Israel until Omri built Samaria.

• 1 Samuel 15:22

  [Bible Verses]

  1 Samuel 15:22 records Samuel's rebuke of Saul: "Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams." It is a key verse for the principle that obedience to God's word takes precedence over ritual worship. It also raises questions about application, particularly about whom one is to obey.

• Samaria

  [Bible]

  Samaria was the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel in the Old Testament; in the New Testament period, the name refers to the region lying between Judea and Galilee.

• Ben-hadad

  [People]

  Ben-hadad is the name of a king, or kings, of Aram (capital Damascus) in the Old Testament. The name means "son of Hadad," Hadad being the Aramean storm god, and it appears in accounts from the reigns of Asa, Ahab, and Joash. Scholars disagree on whether it refers to one king or to several.

• 1 Kings 18:21

  [Bible Verses]

  These are the words Elijah spoke on Mount Carmel, demanding that the people of Israel, who were wavering between Baal and the LORD, make a clear choice for God. The verse is frequently cited as a call to decisive faith and as a warning against syncretism.

• Ezekiel 24

  [Bible]

  Ezekiel 24 records the word that came to Ezekiel on the day the king of Babylon began the siege of Jerusalem. Through the parable of the rusted pot and the sign of the prophet's refusal to mourn openly at his wife's death, it announces the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple.

• Hanani

  [People]

  Hanani was a seer (prophet) in the reign of King Asa of Judah. He was imprisoned after rebuking the king for relying on the king of Aram instead of on God. He appears in 2 Chronicles 16 and is also recorded as the father of the prophet Jehu.

• 1 Kings 22

  [Bible]

  1 Kings 22 recounts how King Ahab disregarded the warning of the prophet Micaiah, went to battle at Ramoth-gilead with King Jehoshaphat of Judah, and was killed. The chapter then summarizes the reign of Jehoshaphat and the accession of Ahaziah.

• Isaiah 8

  [Bible]

  Isaiah 8 uses the name of Isaiah's son, Maher-shalal-hash-baz, to foretell the fall of Aram and the northern kingdom of Israel. It announces both the Assyrian invasion and the assurance that "God is with us." The chapter closes with a warning not to seek those who have familiar spirits but to follow the law and the testimony.

• Proverbs 1:7

  [Bible Verses]

  Proverbs 1:7 declares that the fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, stating the theme of the entire Book of Proverbs. Christian schools and educational institutions widely use it as a motto, and it is often cited in discussions of the relationship between faith and learning.

• Paleo-Hebrew Script

  [Bible]

  The Paleo-Hebrew script is the consonantal alphabet that the people of Israel and Judah used to write Hebrew before the Babylonian exile. It predates the square script now used in the Hebrew Bible and is also called the Old Hebrew script.

• 2 Kings 12

  [Bible]

  Second Kings 12 recounts the forty-year reign of Joash, king of Judah. It records his repair of the temple with silver gathered in a collection chest, his sending of sacred treasures to Hazael king of Aram to induce him to withdraw, and his death in a conspiracy by his servants.

• Shiphrah

  [People]

  Shiphrah is one of the two Hebrew midwives named in Exodus 1. Together with Puah, she refused to obey the king of Egypt's order to kill Hebrew baby boys and instead let the children live.

• Lo-ruhamah

  [People]

  Lo-ruhamah was the daughter of the prophet Hosea and his wife Gomer and appears in Hosea 1. Her name means "not having obtained mercy" and symbolizes God's judgment that He would no longer have mercy on the northern kingdom of Israel.

• 1 Kings 15

  [Bible]

  1 Kings 15 records the reigns of Abijam and Asa of Judah in the south and of Nadab and Baasha of Israel in the north. Its central events are Asa's religious reforms, his alliance with Aram, and the destruction of the house of Jeroboam.

• Tyre and Sidon

  [Bible]

  Tyre and Sidon were Phoenician port cities on the eastern Mediterranean coast, in present-day Lebanon. In the Old Testament they appear as trading partners of Israel and as objects of the prophets' pronouncements of judgment; in the New Testament they appear as Gentile regions reached by the ministry of Jesus.

• Amittai

  [People]

  Amittai was the father of the prophet Jonah. He is mentioned by name only twice in the Old Testament, in 2 Kings 14:25 and Jonah 1:1.

• 2 Kings 11

  [Bible]

  2 Kings 11 recounts how Athaliah destroyed the royal family of Judah and ruled the land for six years, and how she fell when the priest Jehoiada made king the seven-year-old Joash, whom he had kept hidden and raised.