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• Cities of Refuge

  The cities of refuge were six towns designated by Old Testament law where a person who had killed someone unintentionally could escape blood vengeance, stand trial, and receive protection. Three were located east of the Jordan River and three west of it.

• Bezer

  Bezer was a Reubenite city on the plain east of the Jordan River. It was one of the three cities of refuge that Moses set apart and was also a city given to the Levites.

• Ramoth-gilead

  Ramoth-gilead was a city in the region of Gilead, east of the Jordan River. In the Old Testament it was one of the cities of refuge and a battleground repeatedly contested by the northern kingdom of Israel and Aram. King Ahab was killed in battle there.

• Ramoth-gilead

  Ramoth-gilead was a city in the region of Gilead, east of the Jordan River. It was a city of refuge in the territory of the tribe of Gad, and Israel and Aram fought over it repeatedly. It is known as the place where Ahab was killed in battle and where Jehu was anointed king.

• Galilee

  Galilee is a biblical place name referring to the northern region of Israel and to the lake on its eastern side (the Sea of Galilee). Jesus grew up there and carried out most of his public ministry in the region, making it a principal setting of the Gospels.

• Psalm 48

  Psalm 48 is a song of the sons of Korah that celebrates the beauty and strength of Zion, the city where God dwells. It recalls how assembled kings fled in terror at the sight of Zion and urges that this God be made known to the generations to come.

• Abel Beth Maacah

  Abel Beth Maacah was a city near Dan at the far northern edge of Israel. It is known as the place where Sheba, who rebelled against David, took refuge and met his end through the intervention of a wise woman of the city.

• Achish

  Achish was king of the Philistine city of Gath. He twice received David when David fled from Saul, and he gave David the town of Ziklag.

• Deuteronomy 20

  Deuteronomy 20 sets out the regulations Israel was to observe when going to war. It covers the exhortation not to fear, the men to be sent home from military service, the conditions for attacking a city and accepting its surrender, the command to utterly destroy the Canaanite nations, and the protection of fruit trees.

• Psalm 46

  Psalm 46 is a psalm of the sons of Korah. It proclaims that though the earth and the sea are shaken and the nations are in uproar, God's people will not fear, because God is their refuge and dwells in the midst of His city. It is known as the basis for Martin Luther's hymn "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God."

• Gath

  Gath was one of the five principal cities of the Philistines in the Old Testament. It was the hometown of Goliath and the place where David sought refuge while fleeing from Saul.

• Psalm 46:10

  Psalm 46:10 records God's declaration, "Be still, and know that I am God." The verse is commonly used for meditation on waiting quietly before God, though some note that in context it is a command to the warring nations to cease.

• Heshbon

  Heshbon was a city on the plateau east of the Jordan River that served as the royal city of Sihon, king of the Amorites, at the time of the Exodus. After Israel captured it, the city was allotted to the tribe of Reuben, and in the later prophetic books it appears as a Moabite city.

• Diet of Worms

  The Diet of Worms was an imperial diet convened in 1521 by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in Worms, Germany. At this assembly Martin Luther refused the demand to recant his writings, after which the Edict of Worms was issued, placing Luther outside the protection of the law.

• Ezekiel 12

  Ezekiel 12 is a chapter of the Book of Ezekiel in which the prophet packs an exile's belongings and digs through a wall, a symbolic act foretelling the captivity of Jerusalem's king and people. The chapter also refutes the people's proverb that the fulfillment of prophecy is delayed.

• City of David

  The City of David is the name King David gave to the stronghold of Zion, which he captured from the Jebusites. It refers to the oldest quarter of Jerusalem, located on the city's southeastern hill. In the New Testament, the Gospel of Luke uses the same expression for Bethlehem, David's hometown.

• City of David

  A phrase used in Luke 2 for Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, designating the hometown where David was born and raised. In the Old Testament, the same original-language expression (rendered *Dawit seong* in the Korean Revised Version) refers instead to the stronghold of Zion in Jerusalem.

• Eglon (City)

  Eglon was a city in the lowland of southern Canaan. In Joshua 10 it joined an alliance of five Amorite kings, was conquered by Joshua, and later became part of the territory of the tribe of Judah.

• Nob

  Nob was a town in the territory of Benjamin where priests lived during the reign of Saul. There David received the showbread and the sword of Goliath, and there the priests were massacred at Saul's command.

• Nain

  Nain was a small village in southern Galilee. It is mentioned only once in the Bible, in Luke 7:11, as the setting of the account in which Jesus raised a widow's only son.