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• Genesis 10

  Genesis 10 is a genealogical chapter recording how the nations branched out after the Flood from Noah's three sons, Japheth, Ham, and Shem. It is commonly called the "Table of Nations."

• Tower of Babel

  The Tower of Babel is an event recorded in Genesis 11:1-9. After Noah's Flood, people who spoke a single language began building a city and a tower on the plain of Shinar, but God confounded their language and scattered them over all the earth.

• Plain of Shinar

  The plain of Shinar is the land in the Old Testament where Babel and the Tower of Babel were built. It is generally identified with southern Mesopotamia, the region later known as Babylonia.

• Shinar

  Shinar is an Old Testament place name for southern Mesopotamia, the region where Babylon later stood. It is best known as the setting of the Tower of Babel narrative.

• Ziggurat

  A ziggurat is a massive, tower-like structure of ancient Mesopotamia, built of brick in stepped tiers to raise a temple to a lofty height. It is frequently cited as the background to the account of the Tower of Babel in Genesis.

• Babylon

  Babylon is the name of an ancient city and empire on the Euphrates River in southern Mesopotamia. In the Bible it appears as the nation that destroyed Judah and carried its people into captivity, and in the Book of Revelation it serves as a symbol of the powers opposed to God.

• Bitumen

  Bitumen is a black, sticky, naturally occurring asphalt substance found in the earth. In the Bible it served as a waterproofing agent and adhesive for Noah's ark, the Tower of Babel, and the ark of bulrushes in which the infant Moses was placed.

• Genesis 12:1–3

  The passage in which God commands Abram to leave his country, his kindred, and his father's house, promising to make of him a great nation and to bless him. It is regarded as a turning point in salvation history, and there is debate over whether "I will bless them that bless thee" should be applied to the modern State of Israel.

• Amraphel

  Amraphel was a king of Shinar mentioned in Genesis 14. Allied with Chedorlaomer king of Elam, he fought against five kings, including the king of Sodom, and took Lot captive, but he was defeated by Abram, who pursued the invaders.

• Genesis 12

  Genesis 12 is the chapter in which God calls Abram to leave Haran and go to Canaan, promising to make of him a great nation and to bless him. It then recounts how Abram, fleeing a famine, went down into Egypt and deceptively presented his wife Sarai as his sister.

• Antonia Fortress

  The Antonia Fortress was a stronghold built by Herod the Great at the northwest corner of the Temple complex in Jerusalem. It is generally identified with the "castle" into which the Roman chief captain brought Paul in Acts 21–23.

• Bell Tower

  A bell tower is a tower or structure from which church bells are hung. It was used to announce times of worship and prayer, and in Korean churches it long served as an architectural element symbolizing the church building.

• Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen

  The Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen is a parable of Jesus in which the tenants entrusted with a vineyard kill the servants sent by the owner and finally his son as well. It appears in Matthew, Mark, and Luke and is read as a warning to the leaders who rejected Jesus.

• Jehovah's Witnesses

  Jehovah's Witnesses are a religious organization that grew out of a Bible study group begun in the United States in the late nineteenth century by Charles Taze Russell. The group rejects the Trinity, and several Korean Protestant denominations have formally declared it heretical.

• Migdol

  Migdol is an Egyptian place-name derived from the Hebrew word for "tower" or "fortress." It appears as a site near Israel's encampment before the crossing of the Red Sea during the Exodus, and in Jeremiah and Ezekiel it is used as a place-name marking the northern extremity of Egypt.

• Siloam

  Siloam is the name of a watercourse and pool in the southeastern part of ancient Jerusalem. It is best known from John 9 as the place where Jesus healed a man blind from birth.

• Caesarea

  Caesarea was a Roman-era port city on the Mediterranean coast where, according to Acts, Cornelius was converted and Paul was held in custody for two years. It is distinct from Caesarea Philippi in the northern interior.

• A. W. Tozer

  A. W. Tozer (1897–1963) was an American pastor and author in the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA). He is widely known for books emphasizing a deep relationship with God, such as The Pursuit of God and The Knowledge of the Holy.

• Ada Cecelia Pfautz

  Ada Cecelia Pfautz (1899–1987) was the wife of A. W. Tozer, an American pastor and author in the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA). She married Tozer in 1918 and raised six sons and one daughter (not one son and six daughters). After Tozer's death, she married Leonard Odam.