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• History of The Salvation Army in Korea

  [History]

  The history of The Salvation Army in Korea begins in 1908, when the British officer Robert Hoggard arrived in Seoul. Alongside evangelism, The Salvation Army in Korea has carried out poor relief and the Red Kettle fundraising campaign.

• 1 Timothy 3:12

  [Bible Verses]

  A verse in the qualifications for deacons requiring that a deacon be "the husband of one wife" and rule his children and his own house well. It is frequently cited and debated in discussions of polygamy, remarriage, and women deacons.

• Hosea (Prophet)

  [People]

  Hosea was a prophet active in the northern kingdom of Israel in the eighth century BC and is the central figure of the biblical Book of Hosea. The account of his marriage to his unfaithful wife Gomer, whom he continued to love, is read as a symbol of the relationship between God and Israel.

• Marriage Supper of the Lamb

  [Bible]

  The marriage supper of the Lamb is an expression found in Revelation 19. It refers to the feast celebrating the complete union of Christ, the Lamb, with his bride at the end of the age.

• Nabal

  [People]

  Nabal was a wealthy man from Maon, described in 1 Samuel 25, who insultingly refused David's request. He escaped David's retaliation through the intercession of his wife Abigail but died about ten days later.

• Oholibamah

  [People]

  Oholibamah was a wife of Esau mentioned in Genesis 36. The daughter of Anah the Hivite, she bore three sons, Jeush, Jaalam, and Korah, who became chiefs of Edom.

• Merab

  [People]

  Merab was the elder daughter of Saul, the first king of Israel. An Old Testament figure, she was promised to David as his wife but was instead given in marriage to Adriel the Meholathite. Her younger sister was Michal, who became David's wife.

• Heber the Kenite

  [People]

  Heber was a Kenite who appears in Judges 4–5. A descendant of Hobab, the father-in-law of Moses, he was the husband of Jael, who killed the Canaanite commander Sisera.

• Potiphar

  [People]

  Potiphar is an Egyptian who appears in the Book of Genesis. An officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard, he bought Joseph, who had been sold into Egypt by his brothers, and placed him in charge of his household. After hearing his wife's false accusation, he had Joseph put in prison.

• Peninnah

  [People]

  Peninnah is one of the two wives of Elkanah in 1 Samuel 1. Scripture portrays her as the "adversary" who provoked the childless Hannah year after year.

• Reuel (son of Esau)

  [People]

  Reuel was a son of Esau and his wife Bashemath. He appears in the genealogies of Esau in Genesis 36 and 1 Chronicles 1, and his four sons became chiefs in the land of Edom.

• Shechem (Son of Hamor)

  [People]

  Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite and chief of the city of Shechem, appears in Genesis 34. After violating Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, he asked to take her as his wife and was killed by Simeon and Levi.

• Asenath

  [People]

  Asenath was an Egyptian woman in Genesis, the daughter of Potipherah, priest of On. Pharaoh gave her to Joseph as his wife, and she became the mother of Manasseh and Ephraim.

• On

  [Bible]

  On was an ancient Egyptian city. According to Genesis, Poti-pherah, the father of Joseph's wife Asenath, was a priest there. The city is better known by its Greek name, Heliopolis.

• 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.

• Jezreel (Son of Hosea)

  [People]

  Jezreel was the firstborn son of the prophet Hosea and his wife Gomer. His name, given by God himself, symbolizes both judgment on the royal house of Jehu in the northern kingdom of Israel and the restoration to come.

• Zebidah

  [People]

  Zebidah was a wife of King Josiah of Judah and the mother of King Jehoiakim. She is named only once, in 2 Kings 23:36, where she is identified as the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

• Deuteronomy 24:1-4

  [Bible Verses]

  A provision of the Mosaic Law forbidding a first husband to take back his divorced wife after she has married another man. Because Jesus referred to it when addressing divorce, it is frequently cited in discussions of divorce and remarriage.

• Shelah (Son of Judah)

  [People]

  Shelah was the third son of Judah, the son of Jacob, by the daughter of Shua the Canaanite. After the deaths of his brothers Er and Onan, he was next in line to marry their widow, Tamar. Judah's failure to give him to Tamar sets in motion the narrative of Genesis 38.

• Numbers 12

  [Bible]

  Numbers 12 recounts how Miriam and Aaron speak against Moses over his Cushite wife, how God affirms Moses' unique standing, and how Miriam is struck with leprosy and shut out of the camp for seven days.