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Raising of the Widow's Son at Nain
[Bible]A miracle in which Jesus met a funeral procession near the gate of the town of Nain in Galilee, raised a widow's only son from the dead, and restored him to his mother. It is recorded only in Luke 7:11-17.
Hormah
[Bible]Hormah was a town in the Negev, the southern region of Canaan. During the wilderness period, Israel was defeated and driven back as far as this place, and the town was later named for the "utter destruction" Israel brought upon it. It appears in Numbers, Joshua, Judges, and other books.
Healing of the Blind Man at Bethsaida
[Bible]The healing of the blind man at Bethsaida is a miracle in which Jesus spat on the eyes of a blind man at Bethsaida and laid his hands on him twice, restoring his sight in stages. Of the four Gospels, it appears only in Mark 8:22–26.
Joash (Father of Gideon)
[People]Joash was a member of the Abiezrite clan of the tribe of Manasseh who appears in the Book of Judges as the father of the judge Gideon. He kept an altar of Baal at Ophrah, yet when Gideon tore that altar down, he protected his son from the men of the town.
Bethsaida
[Bible]Bethsaida was a town on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee. The Gospels identify it as the hometown of the apostles Philip, Andrew, and Peter, and it is where Jesus healed a blind man and rebuked the town for failing to repent.
Ziklag
[Bible]Ziklag was a town in the Negev region of southern Judah. Achish king of Gath gave it to David, who used it as his base while taking refuge in Philistine territory from Saul. It is known as the town raided by the Amalekites.
Lydda
[Bible]Lydda is the town where Peter healed Aeneas, a man sick of the palsy, in Acts 9. It lay near Joppa, is generally identified with Lod of the Old Testament, and corresponds to the modern city of Lod in Israel.
Mahanaim
[Bible]Mahanaim was a town in the region of Gilead, east of the Jordan River. Jacob met the angels of God there, and its name means "two camps." It later became the capital from which Ish-bosheth reigned, and David took refuge there during Absalom's rebellion.
Wilderness of Ziph
[Bible]The Wilderness of Ziph is a tract of wilderness surrounding Ziph, a town in the hill country of Judah. It appears in 1 Samuel 23 and 26 as a place where David hid while fleeing from Saul.
Wilderness of Ziph
[Bible]The Wilderness of Ziph is the wilderness surrounding the town of Ziph in the hill country of Judah. David hid there while Saul pursued him, met Jonathan there for the last time, and there spared Saul's life.
Jabesh-gilead
[Bible]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 siege by the Ammonite king Nahash and Saul's rescue of the town, and in the account of Saul's burial.
Gath-hepher
[Bible]Gath-hepher was a town in the territory of the tribe of Zebulun in southern Galilee. Second Kings 14:25 identifies it as the hometown of the prophet Jonah. It is distinct from Gath, the Philistine city.
Jabesh-gilead
[Bible]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.
Penuel
[Bible]Penuel was a town east of the Jordan River near the Jabbok River. Jacob named the place Peniel ("face of God") after wrestling there through the night, and the town also appears in the accounts of Gideon and Jeroboam.
Rahab
[People]Rahab is a woman of Jericho in the Old Testament book of Joshua (chapters 2 and 6) who hid the Israelite spies and was saved together with her family. The New Testament names her in the genealogy of Jesus and presents her as an example of both faith and works.
Zephath
[Bible]Zephath was a town in southern Canaan mentioned in Judges 1:17. According to the biblical account, the tribes of Judah and Simeon together attacked and utterly destroyed it, and the town was then renamed Hormah.
Luke 4:18-19
[Bible Verses]Luke 4:18-19 contains the words Jesus read from the book of Isaiah in the synagogue at Nazareth and proclaimed as the purpose of his ministry. Because the passage speaks of bringing the gospel to the poor, the captives, the blind, and the oppressed, interpreters have long debated whether it refers to spiritual salvation alone or also includes social liberation.
Philip
[People]Philip is the name of two figures in the New Testament: Philip the Apostle, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, and Philip the Evangelist, one of the seven men appointed by the church in Jerusalem.
Achish
[People]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.
Jeiel (Father of Gibeon)
[People]Jeiel is a Benjamite recorded in the genealogies of 1 Chronicles as "the father of Gibeon." He is an ancestor of the family that descends through Ner and Kish to King Saul. Several other people with the same name appear in the Bible.