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• Amorites

  [Bible]

  The Amorites were a people who lived in the hill country of Canaan and east of the Jordan River before Israel entered the land. In the Bible, the name is also used for the native inhabitants of Canaan as a whole.

• 1 Chronicles 26

  [Bible]

  1 Chronicles 26 continues the record of the duties assigned to the Levites in the time of David. It lists the divisions of the temple gatekeepers and the assignment of gates by lot, the men in charge of the treasuries and the dedicated things, and the officers and judges responsible for affairs outside the temple.

• Sherebiah

  [People]

  Sherebiah was a Levite leader who returned with Ezra from Babylon to Jerusalem. He appears in Ezra and Nehemiah as one who explained the Law to the people, led a prayer of repentance, and set his seal to the covenant document.

• Elath

  [Bible]

  Elath was a port town on the Red Sea shore in the land of Edom, at the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba. Uzziah (Azariah), king of Judah, rebuilt it and restored it to Judah, but it was lost during the reign of Ahaz.

• Caphtor

  [Bible]

  Caphtor is an Old Testament place name identified as the land from which the Philistines came. It is generally thought to be an island or coastal region of the Mediterranean, and the best-known view identifies it with Crete.

• The Nations

  [Bible]

  In the Bible, "the nations" refers collectively to the peoples and countries outside Israel. The term is closely tied to the biblical theme that God's salvation extends to all peoples.

• Agrippa

  [People]

  Agrippa was the Jewish king (Agrippa II) who heard the apostle Paul's defense in Acts 25–26. The name can also refer to his father, Agrippa I, who appears as "Herod the king" in Acts 12.

• Edom

  [Bible]

  Edom is another name for Esau, the elder brother of Jacob, and also designates his descendants and the hill country southeast of the Dead Sea where they lived. Scripture portrays Edom both as Israel's "brother" nation and as a neighbor that was long hostile to Israel.

• Generational Curse Theory

  [Controversies]

  Generational curse theory is the teaching that curses pass down to descendants because of their ancestors' sins or idolatry and must therefore be broken through prayer. Several Korean denominations have judged it unbiblical.

• Covenant of Works

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The covenant of works is the covenant that God is held to have made with Adam before the Fall, promising life on the condition of perfect obedience and threatening death for disobedience. It is a central concept in Reformed covenant theology.

• Merari

  [People]

  Merari was the third son of Levi, the son of Jacob. His descendants, the Merarites, became the Levitical clan responsible during the wilderness period for carrying the structural components of the tabernacle, such as its boards, pillars, and sockets.

• Herod

  [People]

  Herod is the name used in the New Testament for Herod the Great and several of his descendants. It refers to multiple figures, including Herod the Great at the time of Jesus' birth, Herod Antipas, who executed John the Baptist, and Agrippa I and Agrippa II in the Book of Acts.

• Canaan (Son of Ham)

  [People]

  Canaan was the fourth son of Ham, the son of Noah, and the one cursed by Noah in Genesis 9. His name later came to designate the land his descendants inhabited and the peoples descended from him.

• 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.

• Levi (Son of Jacob)

  [People]

  Levi was the third son of Jacob and Leah and the ancestor of the tribe of Levi, one of the twelve tribes of Israel. Moses and Aaron, as well as the Levites and priests who served in the tabernacle and the temple, were all his descendants.

• Canaan

  [Bible]

  Canaan is the land lying between the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. It is the "Promised Land" that God pledged to give to Abraham and his descendants, and it is the principal setting of Old Testament Israel's history.

• Angel of the Lord

  [Bible]

  The Angel of the Lord is an Old Testament term for a being sent by God who appears to people and delivers his word. Because the angel sometimes speaks as though he were God himself, interpreters disagree about the angel's identity.

• Promised Land

  [Bible]

  The Promised Land is the land of Canaan, which God promised to give to Abraham and his descendants. In the New Testament, the idea extends to the heavenly homeland and the kingdom of God that believers will receive.

• Jerahmeel

  [People]

  Jerahmeel was the firstborn son of Hezron of the tribe of Judah; his descendants are recorded at length in the genealogy of 1 Chronicles 2. The Jerahmeelites, regarded as his descendants, also appear in 1 Samuel.

• Rehabiah

  [People]

  Rehabiah was the only son of Eliezer, the son of Moses, and appears in the Levitical genealogies of 1 Chronicles. The text records that his descendants were very numerous.