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Numbers 27
[Bible]Numbers 27 recounts how the daughters of Zelophehad ask for their father's inheritance, which gives rise to a law of inheritance for daughters. It also tells how, after Moses is told of his coming death, Joshua is commissioned as his successor by the laying on of hands.
Isaiah 16
[Bible]Isaiah 16 continues the oracle against Moab that begins in Isaiah 15. It contains a lament over Moab's flight, its pride, and the devastation of its vineyards, and it ends with a prophecy that the glory of Moab will be brought low within three years.
Yu Gwan-sun
[People]Yu Gwan-sun (1902–1920) was a Korean independence activist raised in a Methodist family. She was at the forefront of the independence demonstration at the Aunae marketplace in Cheonan on April 1, 1919, was arrested, and died while imprisoned at Seodaemun Prison.
Zerah (Son of Judah)
[People]Zerah was one of the twin sons born to Judah and Tamar, the other being Perez. His descendants formed the Zerahites (KJV "Zarhites"), a family within the tribe of Judah from which Achan came.
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.
Hwang Sa-yeong
[People]Hwang Sa-yeong (1775–1801) was a Catholic of the late Joseon period. During the Sinyu Persecution of 1801, he wrote the "Silk Letter of Hwang Sa-yeong," an account on white silk of the course of the persecution and of proposed remedies, which he intended to send to the bishop of Beijing. He was executed the same year.
Ruth Bell Graham
[People]Ruth Bell Graham (1920–2007) was an American Christian author and poet. The daughter of Presbyterian medical missionaries in China, she was the wife of evangelist Billy Graham and shared in his ministry for nearly 64 years.
Elisabeth Elliot
[People]Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) was an American Protestant missionary and Christian author. After her husband, Jim Elliot, was killed in Ecuador, she went to live in a village of the Waorani people who had killed him and shared the gospel with them. She wrote numerous books, including Through Gates of Splendor.
Timnah
[Bible]Timnah is an Old Testament town in the border region between the tribes of Judah and Dan. It is best known as the place where Samson sought to marry a Philistine woman.
Kim Yang-seon
[People]Kim Yang-seon (金良善, 1907–1970) was a Korean Presbyterian minister, church historian, and archaeologist. He was a professor at Soongsil University and the founder of the Korean Christian Museum at Soongsil University.
Armoni
[People]Armoni was the son of King Saul by his concubine Rizpah. During a famine in the reign of David, he was handed over to the Gibeonites and executed along with six other descendants of Saul, including his brother Mephibosheth (2 Samuel 21:8–9).
Anna Reinhart
[People]Anna Reinhart (c. 1484–1538) was a native of Zurich, Switzerland, and the wife of the Reformer Ulrich Zwingli. Her marriage to Zwingli, made public in 1524, is known as an early instance of clerical marriage during the Reformation.
Sojourner Truth
[People]Sojourner Truth (c. 1797–1883) was an itinerant preacher born into slavery in New York State. She was a leading figure in the abolitionist and women's rights movements and is widely known for the speech she delivered at the 1851 Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.
Job
[People]Job is the central figure of the Book of Job, a righteous man who lived in the land of Uz. Amid suffering that cost him his possessions, his children, and his health, he lamented and protested before God; after encountering God, he was restored. The New Testament cites him as an example of patience.
Ewha Haktang
[History]Ewha Haktang was the first modern educational institution for women in Korea. Mary F. Scranton, a missionary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States, founded it in 1886 in Jeongdong, Seoul. It is the predecessor of present-day Ewha Womans University and Ewha Girls' High School.
Roberta Winter
[People]Roberta Winter (1930–2001) was an American Presbyterian missionary. With her husband, Ralph Winter, she served as a missionary in Guatemala, and in 1976 she co-founded the U.S. Center for World Mission to advance mission among unreached people groups.
Jeremiah (of Libnah)
[People]Jeremiah of Libnah was the father of Hamutal, the wife of King Josiah of Judah, and the maternal grandfather of Kings Jehoahaz and Zedekiah. He is a different person from the prophet Jeremiah, who bore the same name.
Song of Songs 5
[Bible]Song of Songs 5 opens with the bridegroom's song upon entering his garden. It then tells how the bride, failing to receive her beloved when he comes to her at night, loses him, searches for him, and sings of his beauty to the daughters of Jerusalem.
Ammon
[Bible]Ammon was a people whom the Bible describes as the descendants of Ben-ammi, the son of Lot. Living east of the Jordan River, the Ammonites were a neighboring nation related to Israel by kinship, yet frequently in conflict with it.
Absalom
[People]Absalom was the third son of King David, an Old Testament figure who rebelled against his father in an attempt to seize the throne and was killed in battle. His story is recorded chiefly in 2 Samuel.