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• Choi Ja-shil

  Choi Ja-shil (1915–1989) was a Korean Pentecostal woman minister. In 1958, together with David Yonggi Cho, who later became her son-in-law, she founded the Daejo-dong tent church, which grew into today's Yoido Full Gospel Church.

• Jerimoth

  Jerimoth is a Hebrew name found in the Old Testament books of Chronicles. This article focuses mainly on "Jerimoth the son of David" (2 Chronicles 11:18), who is recorded as the father-in-law of King Rehoboam, and also lists other individuals of the same name.

• Tamar

  Tamar is a Hebrew name meaning "palm tree." It refers chiefly to the woman in Genesis 38 who bore Perez and Zerah to her father-in-law Judah and whose name appears in the genealogies of David and of Jesus Christ.

• Talmai

  Talmai is the name of two men in the Old Testament. One was a descendant of Anak who lived in Hebron; the other was the king of Geshur, who was David's father-in-law and the maternal grandfather of Absalom.

• Nahshon

  Nahshon was the leader of the tribe of Judah during the wilderness period after the Exodus. The son of Amminadab and the brother-in-law of Aaron, he appears in the genealogies of David and of Jesus Christ.

• Amminadab

  Amminadab was a man of the tribe of Judah, the son of Ram and the father of Nahshon and Elisheba. He was the father-in-law of Aaron, and his name appears in the genealogies of David and of Jesus Christ.

• Joiada (Son of Eliashib)

  Joiada was a high priest in Jerusalem during the Persian period after the return from exile. He was the son and successor of the high priest Eliashib. One of his sons became the son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite and was driven out by Nehemiah (Nehemiah 13:28).

• Caiaphas

  Caiaphas was the high priest in Jerusalem in the time of Jesus. He led the council that examined Jesus and handed him over to the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, and he is recorded as the son-in-law of Annas.

• Hereditary Pastoral Succession

  Hereditary pastoral succession is the practice of handing a senior pastor's position to the pastor's child or son-in-law. In Korean it is commonly called "pastoral hereditary succession" or "passing down the pastorate." Denominations such as the Korean Methodist Church and the Presbyterian Church of Korea (Tonghap) have prohibited it by church law, and debate over the practice continues.

• Levirate Marriage

  Levirate marriage was an ancient Israelite institution in which, when a husband died without a son, his brother married the widow so that the firstborn son would carry on the name and line of the deceased. It is prescribed in Deuteronomy 25.

• Hobab

  Hobab is a Midianite who appears in Numbers 10 and Judges 4. When Israel set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, Moses asked him to come along as a guide. Interpreters disagree on whether he was Moses' brother-in-law or his father-in-law.

• Annas

  Annas was a former Jewish high priest in the time of Jesus and the father-in-law of Caiaphas. He was the first person before whom Jesus was brought after his arrest, and he also appears at the interrogation of the apostles.

• Redemption of the Firstborn

  The redemption of the firstborn is a provision of the Mosaic Law by which the firstborn son in Israel was set apart as belonging to God and then redeemed by a payment of five shekels of silver. The institution served as a reminder that God spared Israel's firstborn sons at the time of the Exodus.

• Elnathan

  Elnathan was a man of Jerusalem in the final years of the kingdom of Judah and the father of Nehushta, mother of King Jehoiachin (2 Kings 24:8). He is widely identified with "Elnathan the son of Achbor," an official of King Jehoiakim mentioned in the Book of Jeremiah.

• Zerah (Son of Judah)

  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.

• Eliezer

  Eliezer was the second son of Moses and Zipporah. His name is understood to mean "my God is help." Several people in the Bible bear the same name, and Eliezer the servant of Abraham is especially well known.

• Jethro

  Jethro is a priest of Midian in the Book of Exodus, the father-in-law of Moses and the father of Zipporah. In Exodus 2 he appears under the name Reuel. He is known for advising Moses to appoint leaders over the people and to share the work of judging with them.

• 1 Timothy 1

  The first chapter of 1 Timothy. Paul urges Timothy, whom he has left in Ephesus, to restrain the teaching of other doctrines. He then explains the proper use of the law, testifies to the mercy he himself received, and charges Timothy to fight the good fight.

• Haran

  Haran was a city in northern Mesopotamia where Abraham's family stayed after leaving Ur of the Chaldees, and where Jacob spent twenty years in the household of his uncle Laban.

• Timnah

  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.