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- PersonThe Samaritan WomanThe woman at Jacob's well to whom Jesus revealed living water and declared Himself Messiah; her testimony brought a Samaritan town to faith (John 4).
- PersonNahumThe Elkoshite (Nah 1:1), prophet of the burden of Nineveh — the sequel to Jonah: the city spared once, destroyed in 612 BC. His name means comfort. Hometown Elkosh disputed…
Places(5+)
- PlaceBethlehemBirthplace of David and, in Christian tradition, Jesus; a small town about six miles south of Jerusalem in the Judean hill country.
- PlaceNazarethGalilean hill town, home of Joseph and Mary and of Jesus' hidden years; "can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" — yet the Messiah was called a Nazarene.
- PlaceCapernaumThe lakeside town central to Jesus' Galilean ministry and the setting of the bread-of-life discourse (John 6:24-59).
- PlaceSycharThe Samaritan town by Jacob's well where Jesus met the woman and stayed two days (John 4:5).
- PlaceEphraimThe town near the wilderness where Jesus withdrew with His disciples before the last Passover (John 11:54).
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- ConceptSeedOne word that carries the whole promise — a line of descent that narrows, verse by verse, to one Person.
- ConceptSacrificeLife given in place of life — the principle stated in Leviticus 17:11 and carried from Eden's coats of skin to Calvary.
- ConceptThe LambFrom Abraham's "God will provide himself a lamb" to the Lamb standing as slain in heaven — the Bible's longest single image.
- ConceptThe Abrahamic CovenantLand, seed, and blessing sworn to one man — unconditional, and the root every later promise grows from.
- ConceptThe New CovenantLaw written on hearts, sins remembered no more — promised to Israel by Jeremiah, ratified in a cup on the night of betrayal.
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Authors(5+)
- AuthorJeromeEusebius Hieronymus was born about 347 at Stridon, a town on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia that no longer exists. His parents were Christians with money. They sent him to…
- AuthorRichard BaxterRichard Baxter came to Kidderminster in 1641 as a young minister in a rough weaving town, and stayed long enough to change it. His method was not clever: he and his assistant…
- AuthorJohn FlavelJohn Flavel spent his ministry in Dartmouth, a Devon port town of sailors and merchants, and he preached like a man who knew his congregation's work. Navigation Spiritualized…
- AuthorOswald ChambersOswald Chambers trained as an artist in Edinburgh and gave it up for a training college in a Scottish seaside town, then spent years traveling and teaching before he settled as…
- AuthorJonathan EdwardsJonathan Edwards was pastor of Northampton, Massachusetts, when in the winter of 1734–35 the town was seized by a concern for God that he said left scarcely a house untouched…