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• Zerah (Son of Reuel)

  Zerah, a grandson of Esau and son of Reuel, was an Edomite chief listed in the Edomite genealogies of Genesis 36 and 1 Chronicles 1.

• Nahath

  Nahath was a son of Reuel, the son of Esau, and is recorded in Genesis 36 as one of the chiefs of Edom.

• Judges 20

  Judges 20 recounts the civil war in which the tribes of Israel assemble at Mizpah and fight against the tribe of Benjamin after the death of a Levite's concubine at Gibeah. Israel is defeated twice, then wins on the third day by means of an ambush, and only 600 Benjamites survive.

• 1 Samuel 7

  1 Samuel 7 recounts how, while the ark of the covenant remains at Kiriath-jearim, Samuel gathers Israel at Mizpah and leads the people in repentance, and how, after the Philistines are defeated, he sets up the Ebenezer stone. The chapter closes with a summary of Samuel's lifelong service as judge over Israel.

• Baalis

  Baalis was king of the children of Ammon shortly after the fall of Jerusalem. He appears only once, in Jeremiah 40:14, in a report that he had sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to kill Gedaliah, the governor of Judah.

• Mizpah

  Mizpah is an Old Testament place name meaning "watchtower" or "lookout." Several places bore this name; the best known is Mizpah in the territory of Benjamin, where Samuel assembled Israel for repentance and prayer.

• Jonathan (son of Kareah)

  Jonathan, son of Kareah and brother of Johanan, was one of the captains of the forces of Judah who came to Gedaliah, governor of Judah, at Mizpah after the fall of Jerusalem.

• Jeremiah 41

  Jeremiah 41 tells how Gedaliah, the governor appointed by Babylon after the fall of Jerusalem, is murdered by Ishmael at Mizpah, and how Johanan recovers the captive people but then, fearing Babylonian reprisal, prepares to leave for Egypt.

• Jeremiah 40

  Jeremiah 40 recounts how, after the fall of Jerusalem, Nebuzaradan, the Babylonian captain of the guard, releases Jeremiah, who then goes to Gedaliah, the governor at Mizpah, and stays there with the people left in the land.

• Jabesh-gilead

  Jabesh-gilead was an Israelite town in the region of Gilead, east of the Jordan River. It appears in the account of a punishment at the close of the period of the judges, in the account of the siege by the Ammonite king Nahash and Saul's rescue of the town, and in the account of Saul's burial.

• Gedaliah

  Gedaliah was the man Babylon appointed to govern the people left in the land of Judah after the destruction of Jerusalem. He ruled from Mizpah until he was assassinated by Ishmael.

• Ishmael (son of Nethaniah)

  Ishmael son of Nethaniah was a military commander of the royal line of Judah who, after the fall of Jerusalem, killed Gedaliah, the Babylonian-appointed governor of Judah, at Mizpah.

• Jabesh-gilead

  Jabesh-gilead was an Israelite town in the region of Gilead east of the Jordan River. Saul delivered the town from the Ammonites, and after Saul's death its people recovered and buried his body.

• Johanan (son of Kareah)

  Johanan the son of Kareah was one of the military captains who remained in the land of Judah after Babylon destroyed Jerusalem. He warned Governor Gedaliah of a plot to assassinate him and, contrary to the word of Jeremiah, led the remnant of the people down to Egypt.

• Judges 21

  Judges 21, the final chapter of the Book of Judges, records how Israel kept the tribe of Benjamin from being cut off by striking Jabesh-gilead and bringing back four hundred virgins, and then by allowing the Benjamites to seize women during the feast at Shiloh.

• Nethaniah

  Nethaniah was the son of Elishama, a member of the royal family in the final years of the kingdom of Judah. He was the father of Ishmael, who assassinated Gedaliah, the governor appointed by Babylon. Scripture mentions him only in connection with his son's name.

• Parish and Diocese (Gyogu)

  A gyogu (敎區) is a unit into which church members are divided, by region or by group, for pastoral care and church governance. In Korean Protestantism it usually refers to a pastoral district within a single congregation, while in Anglicanism it refers to a regional church unit under the jurisdiction of a bishop.

• Predestination and Free Will

  A debate over whether salvation depends on God's election or on the human response. Calvinism, followed by Presbyterians, and the Arminian-Wesleyan tradition, followed by Methodists, the Holiness Church, and Full Gospel churches, explain the question differently.

• Cessationism and Continuationism

  A debate over whether gifts of the Holy Spirit such as tongues, prophecy, and divine healing have continued beyond the apostolic age. Some conservative Presbyterians hold that these gifts have ceased, while Pentecostal churches, such as the Full Gospel churches, hold that they continue today.

• The Sabbath and the Lord's Day

  A discussion of whether Christians should observe the seventh-day (Saturday) Sabbath or the first-day (Sunday) Lord's Day, and whether the Lord's Day should be kept in the manner of the Old Testament Sabbath.