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• Dathan and Abiram

  [People]

  Dathan and Abiram were brothers of the tribe of Reuben, sons of Eliab, who joined Korah in rebelling against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness after the Exodus. They are known for the incident in which the earth opened and swallowed them and their households.

• Jonathan (Grandson of Moses)

  [People]

  Jonathan was a Levite of the period of the judges who is introduced in Judges 18:30 as "the son of Gershom" and the grandson of Moses. He became the priest of the household of Micah the Ephraimite and later went with the tribe of Dan, serving as priest at their idolatrous shrine.

• Valley of Berachah

  [Bible]

  The Valley of Berachah is the valley where Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, assembled with his people to bless the LORD after they were delivered from a coalition of Moabites, Ammonites, and others. The Hebrew name "Berachah" means "blessing" or "praise."

• Micah (Ephraimite)

  [People]

  Micah was a man from the hill country of Ephraim who appears in Judges 17–18. He kept a graven image and a shrine in his house and hired a Levite as his priest, but the migrating tribe of Dan took both the image and the priest from him.

• Obed-edom

  [People]

  Obed-edom was the owner of the house where the Ark of the Covenant remained for three months during the reign of King David. Scripture records that God blessed him and his entire household during that time. Chronicles also presents him as a Levite gatekeeper.

• Barnabas

  [People]

  Barnabas was an early church leader who appears in the Acts of the Apostles. Originally named Joseph, he was a Levite from Cyprus. The apostles gave him the name Barnabas, meaning "son of consolation," and he accompanied Paul on the first missionary journey.

• 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.

• Mattaniah (Son of Micah)

  [People]

  Mattaniah was a Levite descended from Asaph who lived in Jerusalem after the return from the Babylonian exile. He was the leader who began the thanksgiving in prayer (Nehemiah 11:17).

• Cyprus

  [Bible]

  Cyprus is an island in the eastern Mediterranean, still known today by the same name. In the Book of Acts it appears as the home of Barnabas and as the first place where the gospel was preached on Paul's first missionary journey.

• Judges 17

  [Bible]

  Judges 17 tells how Micah, a man living in the hill country of Ephraim, had an idol made from his mother's silver, set up a shrine in his house, and installed a wandering young Levite as his household priest.

• Psalm 42:1

  [Bible Verses]

  Psalm 42:1 is the opening verse of Psalm 42, which compares longing for God to a thirsty deer seeking water. It is widely quoted as a classic expression of spiritual longing and is also well known through the worship song "As the Deer."

• Acts 5:1–4

  [Bible Verses]

  In this passage Peter rebukes Ananias, a member of the early church, for secretly keeping back part of the price of his land while presenting the rest as a gift. Because Peter equates lying to the Holy Spirit with lying to God, the passage is often cited as evidence for the deity of the Holy Spirit. It is also frequently quoted in sermons on giving and honesty.

• Rock of Rimmon

  [Bible]

  The Rock of Rimmon was a rocky area toward the wilderness where six hundred Benjamites who survived the war with the other tribes of Israel during the period of the judges took refuge and remained for four months (Judges 20:47).

• Psalm 73:25–26

  [Bible Verses]

  Psalm 73:25–26 is the passage in which the psalmist, after being shaken by the prosperity of the wicked, confesses that God alone is the one he desires in heaven and on earth and that God is his "portion for ever." Because it confesses God himself as the greatest blessing, it is often cited as a text of comfort and devotion.

• Ananias and Sapphira

  [People]

  Ananias and Sapphira were a married couple in the early church at Jerusalem whose story is told in Acts 5. After selling a piece of land, they kept back part of the price while pretending to have given all of it. Rebuked by Peter, they died one after the other.

• Acts of the Apostles

  [Bible]

  The Acts of the Apostles is the fifth book of the New Testament. It records how, after the ascension of Jesus Christ and with the coming of the Holy Spirit, the church began in Jerusalem and spread as far as Rome.

• The Sabbath and the Lord's Day

  [Controversies]

  A discussion of whether Christians should observe the seventh-day (Saturday) Sabbath or the first-day (Sunday) Lord's Day, and whether the Lord's Day should be kept in the manner of the Old Testament Sabbath.

• The Church and Politics

  [Controversies]

  The question of how the church and individual Christians should engage in politics. Views differ on the meaning of the separation of church and state, the boundary between preaching and political speech, and the proper forms of the church's social engagement.

• The March First Movement and Christianity

  [History]

  The March First Movement and Christianity examines the role Protestantism played in Korea's March First Movement of 1919. Protestants accounted for 16 of the 33 National Representatives, and churches and Christian schools served as bases from which the independence demonstrations spread across the country.

• Schisms in the Korean Presbyterian Church

  [History]

  The schisms in the Korean Presbyterian Church were the divisions of the once-unified Presbyterian Church in Korea during the 1950s into the Kosin, Kijang, Tonghap, and Hapdong bodies. The disputes concerned the handling of Shinto shrine worship, views of Scripture, and membership in the World Council of Churches (WCC). Further divisions into numerous denominations followed.