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• Tassels (Fringes)

  Tassels (fringes) were the cords that the people of Israel attached to the four corners of their outer garments in accordance with Old Testament law. They served as a sign reminding the wearer of God's commandments. In the New Testament they are frequently discussed in connection with the account of the woman with the issue of blood who touched the edge of Jesus' garment.

• Phylacteries

  Phylacteries are small leather boxes containing parchment inscribed with passages from the Law, together with the straps by which Jews bind them to the forehead and arm during prayer. In the New Testament they are mentioned once, in Matthew 23:5.

• Shihor

  Shihor is the name of an Egyptian watercourse mentioned four times in the Old Testament. It refers to the Nile or one of its branches and also appears in descriptions of the southern boundary of the land of Israel.

• Gerar

  Gerar was a town in southwestern Canaan, between Gaza and Beersheba. It is the setting of the accounts involving Abraham, Isaac, and Abimelech king of Gerar, and it is especially known for the story of Isaac's wells.

• Geshur

  Geshur was a small kingdom, apparently Aramean, and also the name of its people. It seems to have been located northeast of the Sea of Galilee, in the area of the modern Golan Heights. It is known as the home of the maternal family of Absalom, son of David.

• Hushai

  Hushai was a figure of David's time, called "the Archite" and "David's friend." During Absalom's rebellion he feigned allegiance to Absalom, defeated the counsel of Ahithophel, and thereby aided David.

• Gomorrah

  Gomorrah was a city in the plain of the Jordan mentioned in the Old Testament book of Genesis. Destroyed by God's judgment together with Sodom, its name is used throughout Scripture as a symbol of sin and judgment.

• Jonah (Person)

  Jonah was an Israelite prophet and the central figure of the Old Testament Book of Jonah. He is known for fleeing from God's command, spending three days in the belly of a great fish, and then going to Nineveh to call its people to repentance.

• Wilderness of Sin and Wilderness of Zin

  In the Old Testament of the New Korean Revised Version, "Sin gwangya" (Wilderness of Sin) is the name of a wilderness. In the original Hebrew, however, the name refers to two distinct places: the Wilderness of Sin (Hebrew *Sin*) near Mount Sinai, where the manna fell, and the Wilderness of Zin (Hebrew *Tsin*) near Kadesh on the southern border of Canaan.

• Brook of Egypt

  The Brook of Egypt is a seasonal stream (wadi) named in the Old Testament as the southwestern boundary of the land of Canaan. It is commonly identified with Wadi el-Arish in the northern Sinai Peninsula, though scholars differ on its exact location.

• Beth-shemesh

  Beth-shemesh, meaning "house of the sun," is an Old Testament place name. It refers chiefly to a priestly city on the western border of Judah. It was the first place the ark of the covenant reached when the Philistines sent it back, and it was also where Amaziah, king of Judah, was defeated by the northern kingdom of Israel.

• Sodom

  Sodom is a city of the plain of the Jordan mentioned in Genesis. It was the home of Lot, and Scripture records that it was destroyed together with Gomorrah by brimstone and fire sent by God because of its wickedness. Throughout the Bible it serves as an example of God's judgment.

• Mount Hor

  Mount Hor is a mountain in the Book of Numbers. Located on the border of Edom, it is where Aaron died and the place from which Israel set out just before the episode of the bronze serpent. A mountain of the same name also marks the northern boundary of the Promised Land.

• Limbo

  Limbo is the place where the souls of unbaptized infants, or of the righteous who died before Christ, were believed to dwell. The concept developed in medieval Roman Catholic theology and is generally not accepted by Protestants.

• Beth-dagon

  Beth-dagon, meaning "house (temple) of Dagon," is an Old Testament place name. It appears twice in the book of Joshua: once as a town of the tribe of Judah and once as a point on the border of the tribe of Asher.

• Hamath

  Hamath was an ancient city and kingdom on the Orontes River in what is now western Syria. The Old Testament frequently uses it as a reference point for the northern boundary of the land of Israel.

• Chinnereth

  Chinnereth is the Old Testament name for the Sea of Galilee, the land around it, and a town on its shore. The "lake of Gennesaret" in the New Testament is the same body of water.

• Arnon

  The Arnon is a river that flows through a deep valley into the Dead Sea from the east. In the Old Testament it frequently appears as the boundary between Moab and the Amorites, and later between Moab and Israel (the tribe of Reuben).

• Gaza

  Gaza was a major Philistine city on the Mediterranean coast in southwestern Canaan. It appears in the Samson narrative in Judges and in Acts 8, where Philip met the Ethiopian eunuch on "the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza."

• Admah and Zeboim

  Admah and Zeboim were cities in the plain of the Jordan (near the Dead Sea), alongside Sodom and Gomorrah. Scripture records that they were destroyed together by God's judgment, and the Book of Hosea mentions them in a passage about God's compassion.