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• Fishers of Men

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  A phrase Jesus used when He called disciples who were fishermen on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. It likens the work of bringing people to God to catching fish and appears in Matthew 4:19 and Mark 1:17.

• Tishbe

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  Tishbe is known as the hometown of the prophet Elijah. Scripture mentions it only through the epithet "the Tishbite," applied to Elijah, and its exact location is uncertain.

• Salome

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  Salome was a woman disciple who followed Jesus from Galilee. According to the Gospel of Mark, she watched the crucifixion and went to the tomb with spices on the morning of the resurrection.

• Obadiah (Steward of Ahab's Household)

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  Obadiah was the official in charge of the royal household of King Ahab of the northern kingdom of Israel. When Jezebel was killing the prophets of the LORD, he hid one hundred prophets in caves and fed them. He appears in 1 Kings 18.

• Song of Simeon

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  The Song of Simeon is the short hymn of praise that Simeon sang in the Temple while holding the infant Jesus, recorded in Luke 2:29-32. It is also called the Nunc Dimittis, from its opening words in Latin.

• Robert Hardie

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  Robert Alexander Hardie (1865–1949) was a Canadian medical missionary and Methodist minister. Known in Korea as Ha Ri-yeong (河鯉泳), he is remembered for leading the 1903 Wonsan Revival.

• Sea of Galilee

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  The Sea of Galilee is a freshwater lake in the region of Galilee in northern Israel. Most of Jesus' public ministry took place along its shores. The Old Testament calls it the Sea of Chinnereth, and the New Testament calls it the Sea of Galilee, the Lake of Gennesaret, and the Sea of Tiberias.

• Mark 16

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  Mark 16 is the final chapter of the Gospel of Mark. It contains the account of the women hearing the news of Jesus' resurrection at the empty tomb (vv. 1–8) and the account of the risen Jesus appearing, sending out his disciples, and ascending into heaven (vv. 9–20). Because verses 9–20 are absent from some early manuscripts, they are enclosed in brackets in some editions of the Bible.

• Jude 1

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  Jude 1 is the only chapter of the Epistle of Jude. It warns against false teachers who have crept into the church, comparing them with examples of judgment from the Old Testament, urges believers to hold fast to the faith, and closes with a doxology.

• Josheb-basshebeth

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  Josheb-basshebeth was a Tahchemonite, the first of David's mighty men and chief of the captains, who is recorded as having slain eight hundred men at one time (2 Samuel 23:8). He is generally identified with Jashobeam of 1 Chronicles 11:11.

• Isshiah

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  Isshiah was a Levite recorded as the head (chief) among the sons of Rehabiah, the grandson of Moses. His name appears only once, in 1 Chronicles 24:21.

• Marian Bottomley Hall

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  Marian Bottomley Hall was a British-born physician and Methodist medical missionary. During the period of Japanese colonial rule in Korea, she worked alongside her husband, Sherwood Hall, in Haeju, Hwanghae Province, providing medical care and taking part in efforts to combat tuberculosis.

• Jabesh-gilead

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  Jabesh-gilead was an Israelite town in the region of Gilead, east of the Jordan River. It appears in the account of a punishment at the close of the period of the judges, in the siege by the Ammonite king Nahash and Saul's rescue of the town, and in the account of Saul's burial.

• Jabesh-gilead

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  Jabesh-gilead was an Israelite town in the region of Gilead east of the Jordan River. Saul delivered the town from the Ammonites, and after Saul's death its people recovered and buried his body.

• Shallum

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  Shallum was the fifteenth king of the northern kingdom of Israel. He killed King Zechariah, seized the throne, and reigned in Samaria for one month before Menahem killed him (2 Kings 15).

• Nahash

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  Nahash was king of the Ammonites in the time of Saul and David. He besieged Jabesh-gilead and was defeated by Saul. After his death, David sent envoys to his son Hanun to offer condolences.

• Judges 21

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  Judges 21, the final chapter of the Book of Judges, records how Israel kept the tribe of Benjamin from being cut off by striking Jabesh-gilead and bringing back four hundred virgins, and then by allowing the Benjamites to seize women during the feast at Shiloh.

• 1 Samuel 11

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  1 Samuel 11 recounts how Saul, recently chosen as king, wins his first victory by rescuing Jabesh-gilead from Nahash the Ammonite and is then made king again before all the people at Gilgal.

• 1 Samuel 31

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  The final chapter of 1 Samuel recounts how Saul and three of his sons die after their defeat by the Philistines at Mount Gilboa, and how the men of Jabesh-gilead recover and bury their bodies.

• 1 Chronicles 10

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  1 Chronicles 10 recounts the deaths of Saul and his three sons at the hands of the Philistines in the battle on Mount Gilboa and the burial of their bodies by the men of Jabesh-gilead. It assesses the reason for Saul's death and concludes that the kingdom was turned over to David.