# article

title: Doeg
content:
  ## Doeg the Edomite

  On the day David came to Ahimelech and took the bread of the Presence while fleeing Saul, Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul's herdsmen was there, detained before the LORD. (1 Samuel 21:1-7)

  When David had fled and was discovered in the forest of Hereth, Saul criticized his men for betraying him under the tamarisk tree on the height of Gibeah, spear in hand. Doeg the Edomite told him, "I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, and he inquired of the LORD for him and gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine. When Saul ordered the priests struck down but no one would obey, Saul told Doeg to do turn and strike the priests, and he killed 85 priests that day. And Nob, the city of the priests, he put to the sword, both man and woman, child and infant, ox, donkey, and sheep. (1 Samuel 22:6-19)

  Jewish tradition holds Doeg the Edomite was Saul's armor-bearer who refused to kill him in 1 Samuel 31, and that the Amalekite who brings word of Saul's death to David is his son. It is strange Saul had to ask the Amalekite who he was. Also, IDK if he would be considered a "sojourner" or "alien" at that point, even if he was a different ethnicity. (Matthew Henry's Commentary)


title: Bible
content:
  ## The Holy Bible

  The God-breathed Word of God, written by many men over thousands of years. It lays out God's plan of salvation and is all linked with the scarlet thread of the foreshadowing of and need for Jesus' arrival and sacrifice, the actual events of Jesus Christ's life, and the Holy Spirit who in-dwells every Christian in His universal Church. Split into the Old Testament and the New Testament, it's filled with God's Law, God's Covenants, some prophecies that have either come true already or will in the future, history, and genealogies. 

  ### Canon

  Some branches of the Syriac church do not include 2 Peter, 2 and 3 John, Jude, or Revelation. The Roman and Greek communions, and the Ethiopic Bible include Apocryphal books. 

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Page 4)

  ### Etymology

  Bible is derived through Latin from the Greek *biblia* (books) for the books acknowledged as canonical. The earliest Christian use of *ta biblia* (the books) is maybe 2 Clement 2:14 (c A.D. 150): "The books and the apostles declare that the church...has existed from the beginning." Compare to Daniel 9:2 "I, Daniel, observed in the books," referring to the corpus of OT prophetic writings. Greek *biblion* (plural *biblia* is a diminutive of *biblos* (any kind of written document, but originally one on papyrus). 

  Also see Greek *hai graphai* (the writings) or *ta grammata* (the Scriptures), frequently used in the NT to denote OT documents like Matthew 21:42, "Did you never read in the Scriptures?" (*en tais graphais*). 2 Peter 3:16, "all his letters...also the rest of the Scriptures," (tas loipas graphas) includes Paul's letters with other Scriptures, likely the Old Testament and Gospels.

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, 2020. Page 1-4)

  ### Languages

  The Bible is written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. 

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 217)

  ### Translations

  * English Standard Version; ESV Study Bible
  * Septuagint
  * Vulgate

  ### Topics

  * Bible Authority
  * Bible Phrases, Quotes
  * Bible Reading List
  * Books of the Bible
  * Canon
  * Doctrine
  * -ites, -ines
  * New Testament
  * Old Testament
  * Theology
  * Tribes of Israel

  ## Film
   
  The bible is the document that describes the show, the themes, the characters, and lays out where the stories will flow from season one, and possibly more. It's similar to a game concept document (GCD). Ron Moore's bible for Battlestar Galactica contains mission statements, detailed histories of the world, and everything else one can imagine. 

  (Slay the Dragon: Writing Great Video Games by Robert Denton Bryant & Keith Giglio, 2015, page 171.)## Doeg the Edomite

  On the day David came to Ahimelech and took the bread of the Presence while fleeing Saul, Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul's herdsmen was there, detained before the LORD. (1 Samuel 21:1-7)

  When David had fled and was discovered in the forest of Hereth, Saul criticized his men for betraying him under the tamarisk tree on the height of Gibeah, spear in hand. Doeg the Edomite told him, "I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, and he inquired of the LORD for him and gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine. When Saul ordered the priests struck down but no one would obey, Saul told Doeg to do turn and strike the priests, and he killed 85 priests that day. And Nob, the city of the priests, he put to the sword, both man and woman, child and infant, ox, donkey, and sheep. (1 Samuel 22:6-19)

  Jewish tradition holds Doeg the Edomite was Saul's armor-bearer who refused to kill him in 1 Samuel 31, and that the Amalekite who brings word of Saul's death to David is his son. It is strange Saul had to ask the Amalekite who he was. Also, IDK if he would be considered a "sojourner" or "alien" at that point, even if he was a different ethnicity. (Matthew Henry's Commentary)


title: God-Breathed
content:
  The Bible is Scripture written by men inspired by God, so it is infallible truth.

  * The Spirit of the LORD speaks by me; / his word is on my tongue.
  * The God of Israel has spoken; / the Rock of Israel has said to me:

  (2 Samuel 23:2-3)


title: Prompt
content:
  A set of writing prompts

  ## Embarrass your Characters

  * Your bra comes undone or the bra strap breaks.
  * You accidentally send an email or a text criticizing or mocking a person… to that person.
  * You break a chair or a fence you sit on.
  * You’ve gone to the wrong classroom, business meeting, or funeral.
  * You say something very personal to your best friend or partner and then realize someone else is in earshot.
  * You break a glass or spill a drink.
  * You accidentally hug a stranger thinking it’s your parent or significant other.
  * You were only pretending to know about something, and then somebody asks you detailed questions about it.
  * You take a spectacular fall on stage.
  * You say the wrong thing during your wedding vows.
  * You walk into a pole or a wall.
  * You realize you’ve been calling someone the wrong name for weeks.
  * You show up for dinner on the wrong night.
  * Someone reads your private letter or diary entry out loud in a group.
  * You realize your shirt is on backwards or inside out (or both).
  * You’re underdressed, overdressed, or wearing something completely inappropriate for the occasion.
  * You faint or get sick at the worst possible time.
  * An unflattering or compromising photo of you is widely distributed.
  * A family member brings up something private in front of friends.
  * You’re caught singing or dancing when you thought you were alone.
  * You eat something that was only meant for decoration.
  * You send an important email to important people with a truly unfortunate typo.

  (http://www.bryndonovan.com/2017/02/21/cringe-25-creative-writing-prompts-to-help-you-embarrass-your-characters/comment-page-1/)


title: Onomatopoeia
content:
  Words that express sound. Edgar Allen Poe's "The Bells" is famous for using them. (https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/bells)

  ## Devices & Machines

  * Awooga
  * Beep, blip, bloop, blurp
  * Bing, ching, ping, cha-ching, ka-ching, ker-ching
  * Blip
  * Bumble, burr, hum, whir, krrrrrr, rev, rrrrruuuurrrr, rumble, vreeeeeeew, vroo-vroo, vroom, wher wher wher, whir, whirl
  * Bzzzzz, buzz, vzzzt, whizz, wizz
  * Choo
  * Ding dong
  * Vip, zip
  * Vroom, baroom
  * Vworp
  * Whoosh
  * Wlu-wlu-wlu-wlu-wlu

  ## Explosion

  * Bang
  * Blast
  * Boom, kaboom, kaaapoooom, kapow, pow
  * Fizz, fizzle, fisst, sizzle
  * Pew pew

  ## Metal

  * Bang
  * Bash
  * Bong, clamor, dong, throb, kong, gong
  * Bonk, bop
  * Burp, burble
  * Cha cha
  * Chime
  * Chiffchaff
  * Chug
  * Clack, knack, clackety-clack, flac-flac-flac
  * Clang, clanging, clangor
  * Clap
  * Clash
  * Clatter
  * Click, clickety-clack
  * Clink, chink
  * Clip clop, clippity-clop, clippety-clop
  * Klok, klop
  * Knock
  * Clunk, klunk, kerplunk
  * Crack
  * Crackle
  * Creak, reek, skrreeek
  * Drum
  * Finch
  * Flap
  * Flick, flack
  * Flip
  * Flop, flump, flumppf
  * Grind
  * Honk
  * Hrrroonnh
  * Jangle
  * Jingle, jingling
  * Pip
  * Poof
  * Pop
  * Pttah
  * Racket
  * Ratatatat
  * Rattle, prattle
  * Ring
  * Rinky-dink, rink, chink, tinkle
  * Roar
  * Rub-a-dub
  * Schreech
  * Shatter
  * Shock
  * Smack
  * Smash
  * Snap
  * Spark
  * Sputter
  * Swah, shwah
  * Tack, tap
  * Thrum
  * Thwack
  * Thwip
  * Thwok
  * Tick, tock
  * Tinkle, twinkle, ditty, bling-bling, sparkle, wink
  * Twanging, twang
  * Wrangle
  * Zap
  * Zigzag
  * Zing
  * Zoink
  * Zoom

  ## Mud & Sand

  * Fffft
  * Hiss
  * Shush
  * Slap
  * Sog
  * Spray
  * Squelch

  ## Rubber

  * Boing, boink, doink, dwoing, koink, toink
  * Pbbbth

  ## Textile

  * Crinkle
  * Crumple
  * Crunch
  * Flutter
  * Frou-frou
  * Rip
  * Ruff
  * Rush
  * Rustle
  * Swash
  * Sweep
  * Swish
  * Swoop
  * Swoosh
  * Whish
  * Woosh

  ## Lightning & Thunder

  * Clap
  * Crackles
  * Boom, blast
  * Flash
  * Roar, roll

  ## Snow

  * Sushes, hushes
  * Flitter-twitters
  * Whirs

  ## Liquid

  * Blub
  * Chug, glug
  * Crash, roar, 
  * Drip, drop
  * Drizzle
  * Flush
  * Gash, slash, gush, plash
  * Gloop, glop, glub, glup
  * Gulp
  * Gurgle
  * Hush
  * Lap
  * Ooze
  * Patter, pat, pitter-patter
  * Piddle-paddle
  * Plop
  * Rush, dash
  * Slosh, splosh
  * Slurp
  * Sog
  * Splash, splish
  * Splat, spatter, smattering
  * Splut, splutter, utter
  * Spray
  * Sprinkle
  * Trickle
  * Whoosh

  ## Air

  * Gush

  ## Music

  * Crash
  * Jug
  * Hum
  * Oom-pah
  * Razz
  * Strum
  * Tang, ting, tong
  * Tickles, titters
  * Toot, trumpet
  * Trill
  * Untz untz untz
  * Wah-wah, the sound of altering the resonance of musical notes to extend expressiveness
  * Whomp
  * Wub wub

  ## Actions

  * Babum-babum, lub-dub
  * Bang
  * Blab
  * Burp, belch
  * Chomp
  * Clip-clop
  * Dab
  * Dash
  * Flick
  * Gallop
  * Gargle
  * Gnash
  * Gnaw, nibble, om nom
  * Gobble
  * Groan, groaning
  * Grumble, grump, grumph
  * Grunt
  * Hack
  * Huff, puff
  * Hustle-bustle
  * Jab
  * Jump
  * Knock
  * Moan, moaning
  * Oof
  * Pant
  * Peep
  * Pitter-patter
  * Pluck
  * Plop
  * Poke
  * Pop
  * Rush
  * Scrabble, hustle, paddle, dabble
  * Scratch
  * Screech
  * Scritch
  * Scrunch
  * Scuttle
  * Shriek
  * Slap
  * Slip
  * Slither
  * Slump
  * Smack
  * Smooch, smack
  * Sniff, whiff
  * Snuffle
  * Snore, zzzz
  * Snort
  * Sob
  * Spit
  * Splat
  * Squish
  * Stomp
  * Swish
  * Thud
  * Thump
  * Tiptoe
  * Toll, tolling
  * Twiddle
  * Wallop
  * Whip
  * Yank
  * Yawn

  ## Voice

  * Achoo, sneeze
  * Argh, urgh, ugh, ack
  * Babbling, chatter, chit-chat, drone, hubbub, murmur, mutter, rabble, yackety-yak, yadda yadda, yada yada
  * Bah, blah, meh, eh
  * Boo
  * Brrrrr, quiver, shiver, shudder, tremble
  * Cough, ahem
  * Cry, boo-hoo, wah-wah
  * Duh
  * Echo
  * Eeeeoooeeeooo
  * Eek, yikes
  * Eep
  * Ew
  * Flutter, flicker
  * Gag, gaggle
  * Gargle
  * Gasp
  * Gibberish
  * Giggle, snicker, haha, hehe, teehee, bwahaha, mwakaka, ahh ha ha, ho ho ho, ha, hah, heh, hee, ho
  * Hey
  * Hhhhhrrrnnnggg, nnnghuh
  * Hiccup
  * Hmm, hum, mmm, hmpf,  humph, humpf, hmph, ho hum
  * Hooray, hurrah, yay, wahoo, woot, whoo, woo-hoo, yahoo, yeah, yeehaw, yippee, yoo-hoo
  * Huh, uh, ahh, oh, eh
  * La
  * Na
  * Nah
  * Ooh
  * Oops, whoops, woops, ups
  * Ouch, ow, yeow, yow
  * Phew
  * Psst
  * Sheesh
  * Shhh
  * Shoo
  * Shriek
  * Shuffle
  * Sigh
  * Snuffle, sniffle
  * Uh, uhm, um, uh-huh, uh-oh, wuh-uh-uh
  * Waaa, wah
  * Wail
  * Wheee
  * Whew
  * Wheeze
  * Whine
  * Whisper
  * Whistle
  * Wimper
  * Ta-da, ta-dah
  * Tch
  * Tsk
  * Whoa, whoa oh oh oh, wow
  * Whoop
  * Yoink
  * Zzzzz

  ## Animal

  * Bark, woof, awooo, bow-wow, ruff, woof
  * Bleat, baa
  * Buzz
  * Caw
  * Cheep, peep, tweet, chirp, chirr, chirrup
  * Chitter
  * Click
  * Cluck
  * Cock a doodle doo
  * Coo
  * Cricket
  * Croak
  * Cuckoo
  * Growl
  * Hiss
  * Honk, cackle, gobble
  * Hoot
  * Howl
  * Meow, mew, miaow, mrow, yowl
  * Moo
  * Muffle
  * Neigh
  * Oink
  * Purr
  * Quack
  * Skraww
  * Snarl
  * Squabble
  * Squak
  * Squeak
  * Squall
  * Squel
  * Squelch
  * Ribbit
  * Roar, rawr, rowr
  * Roll, rolling
  * Screech
  * Tweet
  * Whip-poor-will
  * Yap, yip
  * Yowl

  ## Sites

  * https://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/onomatopoeia-word-list/
  * https://www.ereadingworksheets.com/figurative-language/poetic-devices/onomatopoeia-examples/
  * https://thinkwritten.com/onomatopoeia/
  * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_onomatopoeias
  * http://www.alisonreynolds.com.au/?p=1407
  * https://www.noisehelp.com/examples-of-onomatopoeia.html


title: Man
content:
  ## The man pages

  The man pages (short for manual pages) are a commonly used source of Linux documentation, providing in-depth documentation about programs, utilities, and other topics, including configuration files, programming APIs for system calls, library routines, and the kernel. They are on all Linux distributions. 

  Type man with a topic name as an argument to retrieve the information stored in the topic's man pages. 

  The man pages are divided into chapters numbered 1 through 9. In some cases, a letter is appended to the chapter number to identify a specific topic. For example, many pages describing part of the X Window API are in chapter 3X.

  The chapter number can be used to force man to display the page from a particular chapter. It is common to have multiple pages across multiple chapters with the same name, especially for names of library functions or system calls. 

  man pages are often converted to other formats, such as PDF, web pages, published books, and websites. 

  (LFS101x, man7.org/linux/man-pages)

  ### **man** command

  * man ~ Searches, formats, and displays the information contained in the man page system. Output is piped through less or other pager program
  * man -a ~ display all pages with the given name in all chapters
  * $ man -a socket ~ display all pages with socket in all chapters
  * man -f ~ list all pages on the topic, instead of using the default order at /etc/man_db.conf to determine which to display. Same result as **whatis**
  * man -k ~ List all pages that discuss a specified topic. Same result as **apropos**

  (LFS101x)

  ### History

  The man pages infrastructure was first introduced in the early UNIX versions, at the beginning of the 1970s. 

  (LFS101x)


title: LFS101x
content:
  LFS101x: Introduction to Linux, an edX LinuxFoundationX class taught by Jerry Cooperstein, PhD, who consulted with and thanks Flavia Cioanca, Magdalena Stepien, and Clyde Seepersad of The Linux Foundation. It is descended from The Linux Foundation's original "Introduction to Linux" paid course with a live instructor.

  The Linux Foundation's LFS101: Introduction to Linux is probably similar @ training.linuxfoundation.org/training/introduction-to-linux/

  ## Topics

  * Amorak
  * Application
  * APT
  * apt-get
  * apt-cache
  * Audacity
  * Background
  * Basic Input/Output System (BIOS)
  * Blender
  * Boot Loader
  * Boot Process
  * Btrfs
  * CentOS
  * Chromium
  * Cinelerra
  * Cinepaint
  * Command Shell
  * Command Line
  * convert
  * CPU
  * Daemon
  * Dangling Link
  * Debian
  * Delete File
  * Desktop
  * Desktop Background
  * Desktop Environment
  * Desktop Theme
  * DHCP
  * dhcpd
  * Display Manager
  * Distribution
  * Distro
  * dnf
  * Documentation
  * DPKG
  * Ekiga
  * Email
  * eog
  * Epiphany
  * Fedora
  * FFmpeg
  * File Descriptor
  * File Manager
  * Filesystem
  * foo
  * ftpd
  * gedit
  * GIF
  * GIMP
  * GMT
  * GNOME
  * gnome-tweak-tool
  * GNU
  * GNU Info
  * Google Chrome
  * GPL
  * Greg  Kroah-Hartman
  * GUI
  * Hard Link
  * **help** or **--help**
  * Hidden File
  * Holy War
  * Home
  * HTML
  * httpd
  * Hypervisor
  * IDE
  * ImageMagick
  * IMAP
  * init
  * initramfs
  * Inkscape
  * Inode Number
  * IRC
  * JPEG
  * JPG
  * KDE
  * Kernel
  * LibreOffice
  * Linus Torvalds
  * Linux
  * Linux Distribution
  * The Linux Foundation
  * Linux Mint
  * Load Average
  * Lock Screen
  * MAC address
  * The man pages
  * Master Boot Record (MBR)
  * Media Player
  * Mozilla Firefox
  * named
  * Network Manager
  * NTP
  * Office Suite
  * openSUSE
  * Opera
  * Operating System (OS)
  * Oracle Linux
  * Package
  * PackageKit
  * Package Manager
  * Partition
  * Pipe |
  * Pipeline
  * PNG
  * POP
  * Power On Self Test (POST)
  * Process
  * PS1
  * Random Access Memory (RAM)
  * Recursive
  * Red Hat
  * Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  * The Red Hat Family
  * Remote machine
  * Rhythmbox
  * Richard Stallman
  * root
  * RPM
  * sbin
  * Scientific Linux
  * Scribus
  * Script
  * Secure Shell (SSH)
  * Service
  * Session Manager
  * Shell
  * Shortcut
  * Sleep
  * Sleep Mode
  * SLES
  * Soft Link
  * Standard Error - stderr
  * Standard File Stream, Standard Stream
  * Standard Input - stdin
  * Standard Output - stdout
  * SUPER
  * SUSE
  * Suspend Mode
  * Symbolic Link
  * Symlink
  * System File
  * System Resource
  * systemctl
  * systemd
  * SysVinit
  * Text-Mode Login
  * TIFF
  * Theme
  * Ubuntu
  * UI
  * Upstart
  * Unity
  * UNIX
  * User Device (udev)
  * UTC
  * Video Editor
  * Virtual Machine (VT)
  * Virtual Terminal
  * VoIP
  * Wayland
  * Web Browser
  * Window Manager
  * Windows
  * WYSIWYG
  * X Client
  * X Display Manager
  * X server
  * X Window system
  * YaST
  * yum
  * zypper

  (LFS101x)


title: O
content:
  ## Planescape: Torment 

  A man who apparently has no insides - no muscles, teeth, etc. He is a portion of eternity.

  He claims to have spoken to the Nameless One before, but he always forgets him. He says his endless quest to discover himself always ends in amnesia, drawing close and recoiling. 

  (O)


title: Year
content:
  ## Months

  **Calendar**

  * January
  * February
  * March
  * April
  * May
  * June
  * July
  * August
  * September
  * October
  * November
  * December

  **Hebrew Calendar**

  * Ziv (2nd month - 1 Kings 6:1)
  * Bul (8th month - 1 Kings 6:38)

  ## Writing Style

  Years. Two consecutive years should be run thus: During 1897-98, and not 1897-8. It is proper to say the heroes of ’49. 

  (Irvine, Leigh H. The Magazine Style-Code; a Manual for the Guidance of Authors, Reporters ... and All Who Write. Largely Codified from the System of Theodore Low De Vinne, from the Century Magazine, the Century Company's Books, and the Treatises of F. Horace Teall. Abbreviations, the Use of Capital Letters, Compound Words, Etc., Fully Illustrated and Explained. Crown Pub. Co., 1906.)


title: Book
content:
  Here is a library of books I'm reading and have read. If you want to write well, you must read great authors.

  Books are (dated) as I finish reading them, if I remember to.

  Books are as tombstones made by the living for the living, but destined soon only to remind us of the dead. (Etidorhpa)

  ## Computer Programming

  * Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking by Christopher Hadnagy, 2011

  ## English

  * The Magazine Style-Code

  ## Fairy Tales

  * East of the Sun and West of the Moon by Peter Christen Asbjornsen

  ## Fiction

  * An American Tragedy
  * Brave New World
  * The Castle by Franz Kafka (Late 2016)
  * ETIDORHPA OR THE END OF EARTH. THE STRANGE HISTORY OF A MYSTERIOUS BEING AND The Account of a Remarkable Journey AS COMMUNICATED IN MANUSCRIPT TO LLEWELLYN DRURY WHO PROMISED TO PRINT THE SAME, BUT FINALLY EVADED THE RESPONSIBILITY WHICH WAS ASSUMED BY JOHN URI LLOYD WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS BY J. AUGUSTUS KNAPP (Early 2023)
  * Fahrenheit 451
  * Heart of Darkness
  * How Few Remain 
  * Magic - A play by G. K. Chesterton
  * The Making of a Bigot by Rose Macaulay (July 5, 2019)
  * Drinker of Souls by Jo Clayton, 1986 (September 21, 2019)
  * Blue Magic by Jo Clayton, 1988
  * A Gathering of Stones by Jo Clayton
  * William Bradshaw's The Goddess of Atvatabar (1892), or The History of the Discovery of the Interior World
  * Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

  ## Home Economics

  * The Natural Soap Book: Making Herbal and Vegetable-Based Soaps by Susan Miller Cavitch, 1959

  ## Language, Culture

  * A Guide to Japanese Grammar by Tae Kim

  ## Mythology, Religion

  * Bhagavata Purana - https://estudantedavedanta.net/The-Bhagavata-Purana-Part-2.pdf
  * Books of the Bible
  * Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, 1796.
  * The ESV Study Bible<sup>TM</sup>, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles.
  * Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions by Billy Graham, 2002.
  * The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis, 1940.
  * Keep Calm and Trust God by Jake Provance and Keith Provance, 2014.
  * Spurgeon's Sermons on Prayer by Charles H. Spurgeon.
  * The Cloud of Unknowing by the Unknown Mystic, 1922.
  * The Language of Creation: Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis - A Commentary by Matthieu Pageau, 2018.
  * Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: Complete and Unabridged, 1991.
  * The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020.

  ## Gamedev

  * AI for Game Developers by David M. Bourg, Glenn Seeman, 2004
  * The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses by Jesse Schell, 2008
  * Programming Game AI by Example by Mat Buckland, 2005
  * Slay the Dragon: Writing Great Video Games (August 8, 2019)

  ## Manga

  * Land of the Lustrous


title: Origin of the Bible
content:
  ## The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020

  A small group at church studied this book in early 2023. The leader also made handouts with more information from other sources.

  ## Denominations

  * Christian
  * Church of England
  * Evangelicals
  * Greek Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox Church
  * Hebrew
  * Lutheran Church
  * Neoorthodox
  * Protestant, Reformers
  * Reformed Churches
  * Roman Catholic Church, Church of Rome
  * Samaritans
  * Syriac Church

  ## Figures

  * Augustine
  * B. B. Warfield, Benjamin B. Warfield
  * Bernard Childs
  * Bishop Pole
  * Clark S. Pinnock
  * Clement of Alexandria
  * Cyrus H. Gordon
  * David H. Kelsey
  * Francis A. Schaeffer
  * Francis Pieper
  * Frank E. Gaebelein
  * Fritz Buri
  * Harold Lindsell
  * Irenaeus
  * J. Gresham Machen
  * J. C. Ryle
  * Jack Rogers
  * Jacob A. O. Preus
  * Jerome
  * John Calvin
  * John T. Robinson (Redating the New Testament, 1976)
  * John D. Woodbridge
  * Josephus
  * Justin Martyr
  * Karl Barth
  * Martin Luther
  * Origen
  * Papias
  * Paul Tillich
  * Philo
  * Robert Longacre
  * Rudolph Bultmann
  * Tertullian
  * Umberto Casuto (1883-1951)

  ## Topics

  * Apocrypha of the Greek and Latin Bibles
  * Aramaic
  * Augsburg Confession (1530) of Lutheranism
  * Authority, Biblical Authority
  * Autograph
  * Baptist New Hampshire Confession of 1832
  * Belgic Confession (1561)
  * Bible
  * Canaanite
  * Canon
  * Church
  * Codex
  * Covenant
  * Dead Sea Scrolls
  * Divine Encounter
  * Dynamic Infallibility
  * Epistemology
  * Essene
  * Ethiopic Bible
  * Exegesis
  * General Revelation, General Divine Revelation
  * Greek
  * Hagiographa
  * Hebrew
  * Hebrew Bible
  * *hiera grammata*
  * Inerrancy
  * Infallibility
  * Inspiration
  * International Congress on Biblical Inerrancy
  * J-E-D-P hypothesis, JEDP Theory
  * The Law
  * Lectionary
  * Masorete
  * Mothers of reading (matres lectionis)
  * Moabite
  * New Testament
  * Old Testament
  * Oral Tradition
  * Papyrus
  * *pasa graphe*
  * Patristic Period
  * Phoenician
  * Plenary Inspiration, Verbal Inspiration
  * The Prophets
  * Protestant English Bible
  * Rationalism
  * Reformation
  * Semitic family of languages
  * Christian Septuagint
  * Second Vatican Council 
  * Special Revelation
  * Synod (Jewish synod of Jamnia or Jewish synod of Jabneh )
  * Testament
  * the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England (1563)
  * Ugaritic
  * Vellum
  * Vulgate
  * Westminster Confession of Faith

  ## Vocabulary

  * Copula
  * Corpus
  * Doctrinaire
  * Explicable - able to be accounted for or understood.
  * Gnosis
  * Impugn
  * Inimical
  * Plenary
  * Polemicist
  * Repudiate
  * Theopneusty
  * Watershed Issue

  ## Works

  * Against All Heresies by Irenaeus
  * The Battle for the Bible by Harold Lindsell, 1976
  * Biblical Authority by Jack Rogers, 1977
  * De Vita Contemplativa by Philo


title: Update
content:
  ## Videogame

  Adding new content gives people a reason to check it out again…and to talk about it again. New game mode, features, improved graphics, multiplayer mode, new characters, new set of levels…

  Create a marketing concept for every patch. Aion has a strong aesthetic for each patch. 

  (http://www.pixelprospector.com/updates-for-the-game/)

  ## Java For Loop

  The thing that changes so the test has something that can eventually fail so the loop can end. Despite being in the beginning of the loop, it is done at the end of the loop after the last statement in the body.

   * for (int i = 1; i <= 4; i++) {
   * * System.out.println("cat");
   * }

  The i declaration is the initialization, the comparison is the test, and the ++ is the update.

  (DEV276x)


title: DEV276x
content:
  DEV276x: Learn to Program in Java - courses.edx.org

  A Microsoft Java course taught by Kasey Champion. 

  ## Topics

  * Assignment Statement
  * Base Case
  * Boolean
  * Caesar Cipher
  * Camel Case
  * Cast
  * Character
  * Class
  * Class Constant
  * Class Variable
  * Comment
  * Compiler
  * Concatenation
  * Console
  * Control Flow
  * Control Structure
  * Data Type
  * Double
  * Escape Sequence
  * For Loop
  * George Boole
  * Haversine formula
  * IDE
  * If Statement
  * Integer
  * IntelliJ IDEA Community
  * Iteration
  * Java
  * Local Variable
  * Loop
  * Main Method
  * Method
  * Method Header
  * Modulus
  * Nested Loop
  * Out
  * Overloading
  * Parameter
  * Print
  * Println
  * Procedural Decomposition
  * Recursion
  * Recursive Case
  * Relational Operation
  * Return
  * Scanner
  * Scope
  * Statement
  * String
  * System
  * While Loop


title: Christian
content:
  So Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul, and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.

  (Acts 11:25-26)


title: Church of England
content:
  ## Documents

  * Lectionary - Includes Apocrypha but not as doctrine
  * Westminster Confession of Faith


title: Evangelical
content:
  A community of Reformed, Holiness, Anabaptist, Pentecostal, Charismatic, and other traditions. 

  * Conversionism - lives need to be transformed through a born-again experience and life long process of following Jesus
  * Activism - the expression and demonstration of the gospel in missionary and social reform efforts
  * Biblicism - a high regard for and obedience to the Bible as the ultimate authority
  * Crucicentrism - A stress on the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross as making possible the redemption of humanity 

  NAE and LifeWay Research identify evangelicals with four statements:

  * The Bible is the highest authority for what I believe
  * It is very important for me personally to encourage non-Christians to trust Jesus Christ as their Savior
  * Jesus Christ's death on the cross is the only sacrifice that could remove the penalty of my sin
  * Only those who trust in Jesus Christ alone as their Savior receive God's free gift of eternal salvation

  (https://www.nae.org/what-is-an-evangelical/)


title: Greek
content:
  ## Language

  ### History

  The antecedents of Greek are obscure, appearing in Mycenaean and Minoan documents that use three different scripts: Minoan hieroglyphic (earliest), linear A, and linear B (latest). Linear B is considered "pre-Greek," written in a sylabic script found on clay tablets discovered on the island of Crete and on the Greek mainland (1400-1200 B.C.)

  Mycenaean civilization and script ended suddenly with the Dorian invasions (1200 B.C.), and writing disappeared for several centuries. Around the 8th century B.C., Greek writing appeared in a different script based on an alphabet presumably borrowed from the Phoenicians then adapted to the Greek speech sound system and direction of writing. Greek was first written from right to left like West Semitic languages, then in a back-and-forth pattern, and finally left-to-right. 

  Several dialects appeared during the archaic period (8th-6th centuries B.C.): Dorian, Ionian, Achaean, and Aeolic. 

  During the classical period (5th-4th centuries B.C.), Greek culture reached its literary and artistic zenith/ Classical (or Attic) Greek was characterized by subtlety of syntax and expressive use of particles. As the city of Athens attained cultural and political control, the Attic dialect gained prestige. With the Macedonian conquests, Attic Greek, combined with influences from other dialects (especially Ionic), became the international language of the eastern Mediterranean area.

  The conquests of Alexander the Great encouraged the spread of Greek language and culture. Regional dialects were replaced by "Hellenistic" or "koine" (common) Greek, adding many vernacular expressions to Attic Greek. Simplifying the grammar also better adapted it to a worldwide culture, becoming the common language of commerce and diplomacy. The transition from classic to koine also took away the elegance and finely shaded nuance of Greek but not the strength, beauty, clarity, and logical rhetorical power. Also during this time, 

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 230-232)

  ### Dialects 

  Classical or Attic, Hellenistic or Koine, Dorian, Ionian or Ionic, Achaean, Aeolic. 

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 231)

  ### Character

  Greek is beautiful, rich, and harmonious. It is suitable for vigorous thought and religious devotion. During its classic period, Greek was the language of a great world culture. Language, literature, and art flourished more than war. The Greek mind was concerned with ideals of beauty, and the language reflects artistry in its philosophical dialogues, poetry, and stately orations. It was also characterized by strength and vigor. It was capable of variety and striking effects, suitable for argument with its vocabulary and style that could penetrate and clarify phenomena rather than simply tell stories. Classical Greek elaborately developed many forms from a few word roots. Its complex syntax allowed intricate word arrangements to express fine nuances of meaning. 

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 230)

  ### Biblical Greek

  The Bible is written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. 

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 217)

  Aramaic was a common language of Palestine during Jesus' day. New Testament names reflect Aramaic (Bartholomew, Bar-jonah, Barnabas), Greek (Andrew, Philip), Latin (Mark), as well as Hebrew. Aramaic, Greek, and Hebrew were widely used. Latin was probably limited to military and governmental circles. Mishnaic Hebrew was also used, and Mishnaic Hebrew documents were found with the Dead Sea Scrolls.

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 227-229)

  Paul wrote his letter to Christians in Rome in Greek rather than Latin. The Roman Empire of that time was culturally a Greek world, except for governmental transactions.

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 232)

  ### Greek Alphabet

  * Α α	alpha, άλφα
  * Β β	beta, βήτα
  * Γ γ	gamma, γάμμα
  * Δ δ	delta, δέλτα
  * Ε ε	epsilon, έψιλον
  * Ζ ζ	zeta, ζήτα
  * Η η	eta, ήτα
  * Θ θ	theta, θήτα
  * Ι ι	iota, ιώτα
  * Κ κ	kappa, κάππα
  * Λ λ	lambda, λάμδα
  * Μ μ	mu, μυ
  * Ν ν	nu, νυ
  * Ξ ξ	xi, ξι
  * Ο ο	omicron, όμικρον
  * Π π	pi, πι
  * Ρ ρ	rho, ρώ
  * Σ σ/ς	sigma, σίγμα
  * Τ τ	tau, ταυ
  * Υ υ	upsilon, ύψιλον
  * Φ φ	phi, φι
  * Χ χ	chi, χι
  * Ψ ψ	psi, ψι
  * Ω ω	omega, ωμέγα

  ## Greek Mythology


title: Church
content:
  Either the Catholic Church, the universal Body of Christ which transcends time and space, OR the physical buildings which mark places of worship.

  The early church was familiar with church *ekklesia* as one of the words used to denote Israel as the "assembly" of the Lord's People. Jesus is the vital continuity between old Israel and the new, and his faithful followers were both the righteous remnant of the old and the nucleus of the new.

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, 2020. Page 11.)


title: Hebrew
content:
  For names, see Hebrew Name. 

  ## Language

  Hebrew is a Semitic language and one of several Canaanite dialects alongside Phoenician, Ugaritic, and Moabite. Unlike English which is unintelligibly different between 12 centuries, Hebrew was remarkably stable. The Song of Deborah preserves the language's oldest form, though the style differs between Job and Esther. Different dialects are preserved like Judges 12:4-6's Shibboleth/Sibboleth - Israelites east of the Jordan pronounced a strong "sh," while those in Canaan "s."

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 217-219)

  ### Dialects, Blends

  * (Hebrew-Aramaic)
  * Mishnaic Hebrew
  * Yiddish (German-Hebrew)

  ### Character

  Hebrew and other early Semitic languages concentrate on observation over reflection, appearances over inward being or essence, and effects over series of causes. 

  The vividness, conciseness, and simplicity make it difficult to translate. It's a pictorial language with frequent use of "behold," "he arose and went," "he opened his lips and spoke," etc. 

  Psalm 23 contains 55 words. 

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 220)

  ### Alphabet

  Written right to left. 22 consonants, signs for vowels were devised and added late in the language's history. The origin of the alphabet is unknown. 

  Vowels were simply understood by the reader like our blvd. and rd. After the Christian era and the Diaspora, Hebrew became a dead language and traditional pronunciation and understanding were becoming lost. Jewish scribes tried to permanently establish vowel sounds. First, mothers of reading (matres lectionis) were added before the Christian era to indicate long vowels, and they are seen in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Around the 5th century A.D., the Masoretes added vowel signs to indicate short vowels in at least 3 different systems of signs over space and time. The one used today is from Masoretic scribes in Tiberias. Vowels and half-vowels are indicated by dots or dashes above or below the consonants. 

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 221-222)

  The oldest examples of a Canaanite alphabet were preserved in the Ugaritic cuneiform alphabet of the 14th century B.C. The old style is called the Phoenician or paleo-Hebrew script and is the predecessor to Greek and Western alphabets. The modern script is Aramaic or square script and became widespread after Israel's exile into Babylon (6th century B.C.) but did not entirely replace the old. Early Christian era coins and God's name in the Dead Sea Scrolls use the old.

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 221)

  ### Grammar

  Some prepositions like (be- "in"; le- "to"; ke- "like") and the definite article ha- "the" and the conjunction wa- "and" are prefixed directly to the noun or verb they introduce. Suffixes are used for pronouns, either in the possessive or accusative relationship. The same word may simultaneously have a prefix and suffix. 

  There is no neuter gender. Usually abstract ideas or words indicating a group are feminine. Nouns are derived from roots and are formed in various ways, either by vowel modification or by adding prefixes or suffixes to the root. Compound nouns are not characteristic of Hebrew. 

  The plural is -im for masculine nouns and -oth for feminine nouns. Three original case endings for nominative, genitive, and accusative were lost over the evolution of the language. Instead, Hebrew resorts to indicators. Indirect objects are indicated by preposition le- "to"; direct objects by objective sign "eth"; the genitive relationship by putting the word before the genitive in the "construct state" or shortened form. 

  Adjectives are rare, and there are no comparative or superlative forms. Relationship is indicated by "from." Superlative is expressed by several different constructions. 

  Psalm 12:2's double heart is literally "a heart and a heart;" Deuteronomy 25:13's "two different weights" is "a stone and a stone;" 2 King 11:1's "the whole royal family" is "the seed of the kingdom." "Better than you" is "good from you." "The serpent was more subtle than any other beast" is "the serpent was subtle from every beast." Ecclesiastes 7:24's "very deep" is "deep deep." The best song is "song of songs." Isaiah 6:3's "holiest" is "holy holy holy." 

  Verbs are formed from a root consisting of three letters then a change of vowels or addition of prefixes or suffixes. The root consonants provide the semantic backbone and give stability of meaning not found in English. Vowels are quite flexible, giving considerable elasticity. Tenses are not precise; they are usually understood in context. Two tense formations are the perfect (completed action) and imperfect (incomplete action). Imperfect is ambiguous, representing the indicative mood (present, past, future) but also such moods as the imperative, optative, and jussive or cohortative. A distinctive perfect is the "prophetic perfect" where the perfect form represents a future event considered so sure that it is expressed as past. (Isaiah 5:13)

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 222-224)

  ### Vocabulary

  Most roots originally expressed some physical action or some natural object. "to decide" originally meant "to cut"; "to be true" meant "to be firmly fixed"; "to be right" meant "to be straight"; "to be honorable" meant "to be heavy." Abstract terms are alien, such as there being no word for "theology," "philosophy," or "religion." Intellectual or theological concepts are expressed in concrete terms. Sin is expressed like "to miss the mark" or "crooked" or "trespass" or "rebellion." Mind or intellect is expressed like "heart" or "kidneys." Emotion or compassion, "bowels" (Isaiah 63:15). "Horn" is strength or vigor, "bones" for self, "seed" for descendants. A mental quality is depicted by part of the body thought of as its most appropriate embodiment. Strength is represented by "arm" or "hand," anger by "nostril," displeasure by "falling face," acceptance by "shining face," thinking by "say." 

  The root for bless can also mean curse, greet, favor, or praise. Judgement is also used for justice, verdict, penalty, ordinance, duty, custom, or manner. Strength or power can also mean army, virtue, worth, or courage. 

  Some Hebrew consonants stand for two different original consonants that have merged in the evolution of the language. Two words may look identical but can be traced back to two different roots. Consider English "bass" (fish) and "bass" (vocalist). 

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 224-225)

  ### Syntax

  Relatively uncomplicated. Few subordinating conjunctions (if, when, because, etc) are used; sentences are usually coordinated by "and." All but 53 of Genesis 1:2-3:1's verses start with "and." There is no indirect discourse ("such and such said that"), rather parties speak for themselves.

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 225-226)

  ### Poetry

  Assonance, alliteration, and acrostics can only be appreciated in the original Hebrew. Parallelism is evident even in translation. Four common categories of parallelism exist:

  * synonymous - a repeating style where parallel lines say the same thing in different words
  * antithetic - a contrasting style where contrary thoughts are expressed
  * completive - a completing parallel line filling out the thought of the first
  * climactic - an ascending parallel line picks up something from the first line and repeats it

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 226)

  ### Figures of Speech 

  * Apple of his eye - Deuteronomy 32:10, Zechariah 2:8
  * Skin of my teeth - Job 19:20
  * To uncover the ear (to disclose, reveal)
  * To stiffen the neck (to be stubborn, rebellious)
  * To bend or incline the ear (to listen closely)

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 226-227)

  ### Legacy

  English contains amen, hallelujah, jubilee, and names like David, Jonathan/John, Miriam/Mary, Bethlehem, as well as figures of speech like "mouth of the cave," "face of the earth," and "east of Eden."

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 227)

  ### Archaeology

  Until 1974, the oldest witnesses to Canaanite language were found in the Ugarit and Amarna records dating 14th & 15th centuries B.C. Also a few Canaanite words and expressions appeared in earlier Egyptian records. Between 1974-1976, nearly 17,000 tablets dating at least 2400 B.C. were dug up at Tell Mardikh in northern Syria written in a previously unknown Semitic dialect, possibly "Old Canaanite," progenitor to Hebrew.  By 1977, another 1000 tablets were found, only about 100 inscriptions from Ebla were reported on. 

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 217-219)

  ### Biblical Hebrew

  The Bible is written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. Hebrew is called "the language of Canaan" (Isaiah 19:18) or "the language of Judah" (Nehemiah 13:24).

  Hebrew was viewed as the primitive language of humankind by colonial America ("the mother of all languages") and in the Middle Ages.

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 217-218)

  Hebrew is the holy language, Aramaic is a secondary holy language, and Arabic is an everyday language.

  (Ancient Semitic - Ancient Semitic I: The Semitic Languages - A Brief Introduction - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c8HUM_u7RI)

  Aramaic was a common language of Palestine during Jesus' day. New Testament names reflect Aramaic (Bartholomew, Bar-jonah, Barnabas), Greek (Andrew, Philip), Latin (Mark), as well as Hebrew. Aramaic, Greek, and Hebrew were widely used. Latin was probably limited to military and governmental circles. Mishnaic Hebrew was also used, and Mishnaic Hebrew documents were found with the Dead Sea Scrolls.

  Hebrew is referred to in John 5:2; 19:13, 17, 20; 20:16; Revelation 9:11; 16:16. The languages used for the inscription put on Jesus' cross were "Hebrew, Latin, and Greek" (John 19:19-20). Later, Paul was said to speak Hebrew (Acts 22:2; 26:14), and as a Pharisee was undoubtedly able to read Old Testament Hebrew. 

  The Greek word for Hebrew is sometimes translated as Aramaic and may be a general term for Semitic or for a blend of Hebrew-Aramaic. 

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 227-229)

  ## People

  In the Old Testament, Hebrew means the individual or people who used the Hebrew language.

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 218)

  The Jews spoke Hebrew, but by the Persian period, Aramaic was the language of international trade due to the Jewish captivity, while Hebrew gradually became confined to the learned and the religious leaders. After the Babylonian exile, Aramaic influence pervaded the land of Palestine. Nehemiah complained that mixed children were unable to speak Hebrew (Nehemiah 13:24).

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 227-229)


title: Hebrew Name
content:
  Unisex names to the point of not knowing sex based on name, Biblical names, nature names. sometimes same first and last name. 

  Nicknames replace real names and are used even by politicians and military leaders. Biblical names are shortened with an i or y - Benjamin to Benji, Gabriel is Gabi, Samuel is Sammy, Raphael is Rafi, Yaakov to Yaki, David to Dudi, Assaf to Assi, Gershon is Gigi, Yahazkial is Hezi, Pinhas is Pini. Also, petnames are created by adding 'le or 'ik or maybe 'ka to the end. Moshe to Moshik or Moshele, Zvi to Zvika. Examples are Mooly, Mooki, Momo, Yaya, Chiko, Bogi, Bougi.

  I and E are replaceable. I and Y at the end of a name are interchangeable. Children choose their English spelling of their name in school.

  (lost the source ahh)

  ## Meanings, I think

  * -ezer (helper)
  * ben (son)
  * -el (God)
  * beth (house)
  * sol (peace)


title: Luther
content:
  Martin Luther was a key figure in the Reformation.

  ## Beliefs

  He questioned the canonicity of Esther as it is too aggressively Jewish and without gospel content. 

  (The ESV Study Bible<sup>TM</sup>, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 849)

  ## Quotations

  "Bene orasse est bene studuisse," or "to have prayed well is to have studied well." (Spurgeon's Sermons on Prayer by Charles H. Spurgeon (2007))

  ## List

  Martin Luther


title: Neoorthodox
content:
  of or relating to a 20th century movement in Protestant theology characterized by a reaction against liberalism and emphasis on various scripturally based Reformation doctrines

  (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/neoorthodox)

  ## Figures

  * Karl Barth


title: E
content:
  The fifth letter of the alphabet. *e* is a mathematical constant.

  ## *e*

  *e* is a mathematical constant. It is an irrational number that is approximately equal to 2.718. It appears in many contexts that involve limits, including in calculus. 

  (https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra2/x2ec2f6f830c9fb89:logs/x2ec2f6f830c9fb89:log-intro/a/intro-to-logarithms)

  ## Defining *e* to find the Derivative of a<sup>x</sup>

  * lim<sub>Δx-->0</sub> (a<sup>x+Δx</sup> - a<sup>x</sup>) / Δx
  * Consider a<sup>x+Δx</sup> = a<sup>x</sup>*a<sup>Δx</sup>
  * a<sup>x</sup> is now a common factor
  * lim<sub>Δx-->0</sub>a<sup>x</sup> * ((a<sup>Δx<sup>-1) / Δx)
  * Usually, we think of *a* as fixed and *x* as the thing that's moving. Here, though, *x* is fixed, and Δx is the thing that's moving. A constant can be factored out. A limit can be multiplied before or after by a constant without effect.
  * (d/dx)* a<sup>x</sup>  =  a<sup>x</sup> lim<sub>Δx-->0</sub> ((a<sup>Δx</sup>-1) / Δx)
  * Let's say M(a) = lim<sub>Δx-->0</sub> a<sup>Δx</sup>-1 / Δx
  * (d/dx)a<sup>x</sup> = M(a)a<sup>x</sup>
  * If you plug in x = 0...
  * (d/dx)a<sup>x</sup>|x=0 = M(a)a<sup>0</sup> = M(a)
  * M(a) is the slope of the graph of a<sup>x</sup> at x = 0.

  **Approximations from examples**

  * The derivative of f(x) = 2<sup>x</sup> at x = 0 is ~0.69. 
  * g(x) = 4<sup>x</sup>. 
  * g(0) = f(0)
  * f′(0) < g′(0). 
  * g′(2) ~= 1.39

  (d/dx)*a<sup>x</sup> = M(a)*a<sup>x</sup>. Eyeballing slopes just gives approximations of what M(a) could be. We need to define a number *e* to find M(a). From the examples above, *e* seems to be greater than 2 and less than 4.

  ## Definition of *e*

  The base *e* is the unique, real number so that M(e) = 1.

  ## Derivative of (d/dx)*e<sup>x</sup>

  * (d/dx)*e<sup>x</sup> = M(e) * e<sup>x</sup>
  * M(e) = 1, so
  * (d/dx)*e<sup>x</sup> = e<sup>x</sup>

  Why e exists

  * f(x) = 2<sup>x</sup> ... f′(0) = M(2)
  * Consider stretching this function by a factor of k
  * f(kx) = 2<sup>kx</sup> = (2<sup>k</sup>)<sup>x</sup> = b<sup>x</sup>
  * New definition... b = 2<sup>k</sup>
  * When you stretch a function, you shrink the x axis, shrinking the graph, tilting the slope up. 
  * (d/dx)*b<sup>x</sup> = (same thing as the chain rule) (d/dx) f(kx) = kf′(kx)
  * (d/dx)b<sup>x</sup> | x=0   = kf′(0) = kM(2)
  * b = e when k = 1/M(2)

  (18.01.1x)

  * If p(x) = e<sup>x</sup>, then p′(0) = p(0). Since p′(x) = p(x).

  **Derivative**

  * (d/dx)*e<sup>x</sup>|x=-1 
  * e<sup>x</sup>|x=-1
  * 1/e
   
  **Higher Derivative**

  * (d<sup>17</sup>/dx<sup>17</sup>)*e<sup>x</sup>|x=-1 
  * e<sup>x</sup>|x=-1
  * 1/e

  **Related**

  * q(x) = e<sup>5x</sup>
  * q′(x) = 5e<sup>5x</sup> (use chain rule)

  **Another**

  * r(x) = e<sup>x+5</sup> 
  * e<sup>x+5</sup> * (d(x+5) / dx) = e<sup>x+5</sup>
  * r(x) can be rewritten as r(x) = e<sup>5</sup>e<sup>x</sup>
  * Since e<sup>5</sup> is a constant, we get...
  * r′(x) = e<sup>5</sup>e<sup>x</sup>

  **Catenary**

  * g(x) = 0.5a (e<sup>x/a</sup> + e<sup>-x/a</sup>) for some constant a
  * Find derivative of g at a = 2
  * g(x) = e<sup>x/2</sup>+e<sup>-x/2</sup>
  * (d/dx)(e<sup>x/2</sup>+e<sup>-x/2</sup>) =  e<sup>x/2</sup>(d/dx)(x/2)+e<sup>-x/2</sup>(d/dx)(-x/2)
  * (1/2)e<sup>x/2</sup> - (1/2)e<sup>-x/2</sup>
  * (1/2)(e<sup>x/2</sup>-e<sup>-x/2</sup>)

  (18.01.1x)

  ## Examples

  * 10 ~= e<sup>2.3026</sup>


title: Cat
content:
  An animal, CAT the construction company, or an input at Linux's command line.

  # Linux

  The **cat** command type out a file or combine files using the command line.

  (LFS101x)

  ## List

  * Jaral
  * Linux cat command


title: Rome
content:
  Rome is the capital city of Italy.

  Byron calls Rome "the Niobe of nations."

  (Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, 1796. Page 3.)


title: Syria
content:
  The LORD told Elijah to anoint Hazael as king of Syria, Jehu the son of Nimshi as king of Israel, Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah as prophet in his place. (1 Kings 19:9-18)

  Jesus went all over Galilee, teaching and healing, so He was famous is Syria. Crowds followed Him from Galilee and the Decapolis, and from Jerusalem and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan. (Matthew 5:12-25) 

  ## Kings

  * Ben-hadad
  * Hazael

  ## Places

  * Tell Mardikh (Ebla)


title: Augustine
content:
  Fourth century bishop of Hippo in North Africa 

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Pages 38.)


title: War
content:
  If you want to stop the wars - give a homeless person 20 bucks and offer to help take them to a job interview or to the doctor. If you want to stop the war plant a tree or volunteer in the community.

  ~Anonymous on 2018-04-14 at 20:18:05 EST.

  ## Goals, Motives

  * Annihilation
  * Ethnicity, Ethnic War
  * Independence, Civil War
  * Invasion
  * Rebellion
  * Religion, Religious War
  * Succession

  (What is War? (Part 1) - Runesmith - Youtube)

  ## List

  * Atlantean-Lemurian War
  * Blood War
  * Civil War
  * Holy War
  * Nigerian Civil War, Biafran War, Biafran Genocide, Nigerian-Biafran War
  * Philippine Revolution
  * Revolutionary War
  * Savage War of Peace, Savage Wars of Peace
  * Spanish-American War
  * Splendid Little War
  * War of Independence


title: Blood War
content:
  ## Planescape: Torment

  A massive war between the Baatezu and the Tanar'ri. It rages in the Lower Planes, but every plane is touched by it. It is an ideological war seeking to define evil - evil of the horde, a mob mentality of whirling evil, killing and plundering, or the strictly regimented evil of exploitation. 

  It gives research a prod, producing more horrific creations.

  Part of Fhjull's assignment was drafting new recruits, mostly planar warriors and mages from other worlds to serve as fodder.

  (Fhjull Forked-Tongue)


title: Benjamin
content:
  ## Benjaminites

  The least tribe of Israel. (1 Samuel 9:21)

  Saul searched for Kish's donkeys in the hill country of Ephraim, the land of Shalishah, the land of Shaalim, the land of Benjamin, and the land of Zuph, but found Samuel instead. (1 Samuel 9:3-14)

  Abner the son of Ner made Ish-bosheth the son of Saul king over Gilead, the Ashurites, Jezreel, Ephraim, and Benjamin, and all Israel, in Mahanaim. (2 Samuel 2:9)

  The young men of Benjamin followed Abner the son of Ner to represent Ish-bosheth the son of Saul against Joab the son of Zeruiah and the servants of Saul at the pool of Gibeon. 12 Benjaminites and 12 servants of David rose and competed, each caught his opponent by the head and thrust his sword in his opponent's side, so the fell down together. Therefore that place was called Helkath-hazzurim. The battle was fierce, and Abner and his men prepared for a stand on the hill of Ammah, but Abner persuaded Joab to cease battle. The Benjaminites lost 360, and David's servants were missing 19 besides Asahel. (2 Samuel 2:12-32)

  Beeroth is also counted part of Benjamin. The Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have been sojourners there to this day. (2 Samuel 4:2-3)

  Benjamin and Judah were the two tribes that stayed with David's lineage when the kingdom divided at Solomon's death. (1 Kings 11:35-12:24)


  ## Land of Benjamin

  * Anathoth
  * Zelzah

  ## List of Benjaminites

  * Beerothites (2 Samuel 4:2) - Are they really Benjaminites? Yes and no. They gained this distinction in the days of Joshua through deception.
  * Hilkiah (Jeremiah 1:1)
  * Kish the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valor. Father of Saul. (1 Samuel 9:1-2)
  * Ribai of Gibeah of the people of Benjamin is the father of Ittai. (2 Samuel 23:29)
  * King Saul

  ## List of Benjamins 

  * Benjamin Gershwin


title: Benjamin Gershwin
content:
  ## Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura 

  A doctor of phrenology. He's looking to acquire the skulls of Jin and Xin, the famous Ren'ar Siamese twins. They were elvish debutantes who were joined at the hip their whole lives. Scandalous characters as well. Stories of their exploits still float around elite Tarantian social circles.

  The skulls are inerned in a mausoleum in the Tarant cemetery. He'll pay 100 gold.

  (Benjamin Gershwin)


title: Clement
content:
  ## Clement of Alexandria

  His pupils were Origen and Jerome.

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Pages 38.)


title: Cyrus
content:
  Zedekiah's opposition to Babylon eventually led the Babylonians to conquer Jerusalem in the fifth month (July/August) (Jeremiah 39:1-10) of 587 or 586 B.C. The captivity lasted until c.538-535 B.C., when Cyrus allowed the Jews to return to their homeland. 

  (The ESV Study Bible<sup>TM</sup>, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 1369; Ezra 1)


title: David
content:
  ## King David

  The son of Jesse the Bethlehemite and the father of Solomon by Bathsheba. His siblings are Eliab, Abinadab, and Shammah. He was in the line of Christ through Joseph. (Matthew 1:5-6) A handsome, ruddy king with beautiful eyes who grew up tending sheep and playing the lyre. 

  He sometimes lies and runs away in fear but always repents with a contrite heart in praise. He is mighty yet spares his personal enemies, allowing the LORD to avenge him. He seeks the Lord's guidance before life decisions. He receives promotions, even to king of all Israel, yet remains humble (2 Samuel 7:18). He received the Davidic Covenant. (2 Samuel 7)

  He kept His commandments and followed Him with all his heart, doing only that which was right in His eyes. (1 Kings 14:8)

  * **Tribe**: Judah, Bethlehemite
  * **Reign**: 40 years (Beginning at age 30, 7 in Hebron over Judah and 33 in Jerusalem over all Israel)
  * **Burial**: buried in the city of David
  * **Predecessor**: King Saul (he was his armor-bearer)
  * **Successor**: King Solomon, his son (His house temporarily lost the kingdom (1 Kings 14:8), but it will ultimately be eternally ruled by his root and descendant, Jesus (Revelation 22:16).)
  * **Father**: Jesse
  * **Mother**: Nitzevet, the daughter of Adael (Jewish tradition, not Scripture)
  * **Siblings**: Eliab, Abinadab, Shammah
  * **Wives**: Michal, Ahinoam of Jezreel, Abigail of Carmel, Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur, Haggith, Abital, Eglah, Bathsheba, 
  * **Sons**: Amnon of Ahinoam of Jezreel, Chileab of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur, Adonijah the son of Haggith, Shephatiah the son of Abital, and Ithream of Eglah.

  **David's Mighty Men**

  * The Three: Josheb-basshebeth, Eleazar, Shammah
  * The Thirty


  ## David's Life

  * David the Shepherd Boy
  * David the Royal Servant
  * David the Refugee
  * David the King of Judah
  * David the King of Israel

  **The Last Words of David**

  God told him He dawns like morning light on just, God-fearing rulers. It's true, as God made an everlasting covenant and prospers him, while worthless men are thrown away. (2 Samuel 23:1-7)

  **David's Death**

  Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. And the time that David reigned over Israel was forty years. He reigned seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem. So Solomon sat on the throne of David his father, and his kingdom was firmly established.

  (1 Kings 2:10-12)

  ## List

  * David Turner
  * King David (Bible Figure)


title: FP101x
content:
  FP101x: Introduction to Functional Programming - courses.edx.org

  A Delft University of Technology programming course taught by Erik Meijer. 

  * GitHub: https://github.com/fptudelft/FP101x-Content-2015
  * Book: Programming in Haskell by Graham Hutton

  ## Topics

  * async
  * await
  * Boilerplate
  * Bottom
  * Collection
  * Con
  * Conditional Expression
  * Conditional Function
  * Conditional Statement
  * Curried Function
  * Currying
  * Expression
  * Factor
  * Factorial
  * Function
  * Function Application
  * Functional Language
  * Functional Programming
  * Generator
  * Generic Type
  * GHC
  * Guard
  * Guarded Expression
  * Haskell 98 Report
  * Hugs
  * Identifier
  * Idiomatic Haskell
  * Imperative Programming
  * Induction
  * Infix
  * iterator
  * Lambda
  * Lambda Expressions
  * Lambda Calculus
  * Layout Rule
  * Lazy Functional Language
  * List
  * List Comprehension
  * List Pattern
  * Local Function
  * Logical Disjunction Operator (||)
  * Overloaded Function
  * Pair
  * Pattern Matching
  * Perfect Number
  * Polymorphic
  * Polymorphic Function
  * Polymorphic Types
  * Prefix
  * Prelude
  * Projection Function
  * QuickSort
  * Recursion, Recursive, Recursive Function
  * REPL
  * Scalar Product
  * Script
  * Section
  * Set
  * Software Crisis
  * Statement
  * stream
  * Strict Functional Language
  * syncstar
  * Syntactic Sugar
  * Tail Call Elimination
  * Ternary Expression
  * Theorems for Free
  * Tuple
  * Type
  * Type Error
  * Type Inference
  * Type Soundness
  * Type Variable

  **Languages, Compilers**

  * C#
  * Fortran
  * FP
  * GHC
  * Hack
  * Haskell
  * HUGS
  * Intellisense
  * ISWIM
  * KRC
  * Lisp
  * the Miranda system
  * ML
  * OCaml
  * Pascal
  * SASL
  * Xamarin Studio

  **People**

  * John Backus
  * Gilad Bracha 
  * Alonzo Church
  * Haskell Curry
  * Peter Landin
  * John McCarthy
  * Robin Milner
  * Blaise Pascal
  * David Turner
  * Phil Wadler


title: Irenaeus
content:
  The bishop of Lyons in Gaul, writing in the late second century to attribute Acts and Luke to Luke when examining the "we" passages after Acts 16:10.

  (The ESV Study BibleTM, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 2073)

  He stated the doctrine of plenary inspiration in Against All Heresies. (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Pages 38.)

  (130-202 A.D.) A Greek bishop noted for his role in guiding and expanding Christian communities in the southern regions of present-day France and, more widely, for the development of Christian theology by combating heterodox or Gnostic interpretations of Scripture as heresy and defining the Catholic and Orthodox doctrines of the Apostolic Churches. Originating from Smyrna, he had seen and heard the preaching of Polycarp, who in turn, was said to have heard John the Evangelist and thus was the last-known living connection with the Apostles. 

  Chosen as bishop of Lugdunum, now Lyon, his best-known work is Against Heresies, often cited as Adversus Haereses, a refutation of Gnosticism, in particular, Valentinianism. To counter the Doctrines of the Gnostic sects claiming secret wisdom, he offered three pillars of orthodoxy: the scriptures, the tradition handed down from the apostles, and the teaching of the apostles' successors. Intrinsic to his writing is that the surest source of Christian guidance is the Church of Rome, and he is the earliest surviving witness to regard all four of the now-canonical gospels as essential.

  (Origin of the Bible handout by Margaret Ames, February 8, 2023. Page 5.)


title: Jesse
content:
  The name of King David's father.

  ## Jesse the Bethlehemite

  * Tribe: Judah, Bethlehemite 
  * Father: Obed
  * Wife: Nitzevet, the daughter of Adael (tradition, not Scriptural)
  * Children: David, Eliab, Abinadab, and Shammah. 

  He was in the line of Christ through Joseph. (Matthew 1:5) His wife, David's mother, is Nitzevet, the daughter of Adael, according to Jewish tradition. (first page Google results) She is mentioned in the Psalms as being a servant of the LORD: "Turn to me and be gracious to me; / give your strength to your servant, / and save the son of your maidservant" (Psalm 86:16)

  All 8 of his sons were considered for kingship by Samuel. David, the youngest who was tending sheep, was anointed. (1 Samuel 16:1-13) Why did he neglect to include David at first? Was there some legitimate reason not to, or did they have a strained relationship?

  King Saul sent for David due to his renown for valor and the lyre. Then Saul loved him so much, he asked Jesse for David to remain with him. (1 Samuel 16:14-23)

  When he was advanced in years, his oldest sons, Eliab, Abinadab, and Shammah followed Saul in battle against the Philistines, camping in the Valley of Elah against the camps between Socoh and Azekah. David went back and forth to feed Jesse's sheep at Bethlehem. After 40 days, Jesse sent David with an ephah of parched grain and ten loaves for the boys and 10 cheeses for their commander to hear how they are doing. (1 Samuel 17:12-18)

  When David was fleeing Saul and hid in the cave of Adullam, David's brothers and all his father's house joined him as soon as they heard about it. When 400 men gathered under David, he took Jesse and his wife to Mizpeh of Moab and left them with their king until the prophet Gad told David to return to Judah. (1 Samuel 22)


title: Bethlehem
content:
  The LORD sent Samuel to Bethlehem to anoint David, interrupting his overly long period of grieving Saul's sin. (1 Samuel 16)

  Following David's plan, Jonathan lied and told Saul he was absent from the table to attend a yearly sacrifice in Bethlehem. Saul revealed his murderous anger against David, so Jonathan warned David to flee. (1 Samuel 20)

  Asahel was buried in the tomb of his father in Bethlehem by Joab his brother and the servants of David. (2 Samuel 2:32)

  ## List

  * Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem is one of the thirty of David's mighty men. (2 Samuel 23:24)
  * Jesse the Bethlehemite, father of King David


title: Samuel
content:
  ## Bible

  * Tribe: 
  * Birthplace: 
  * Father: Elkanah
  * Mother: Hannah
  * Offspring: Abijah and Joel. 

  (1 Samuel 1, 8)

  **Dedicated to the temple before conception**

  The LORD closed Hannah's womb until she prayed to give her child to the temple, which she did after he was weaned. He received annual visits from her, always receiving a little linen ephod she made. (1 Samuel 1:, 2:1-10,18-21)

  **Samuel judges Israel**

  The people agreed to turn to God, so he had all of Israel gather at Mizpah. He prayed and sacrificed for Israel as the Philistines opportunistically closed in on Mizpah. The people were afraid and told Samuel to not cease crying out to the LORD for them, that he may save them from the Philistines. The LORD thundered with a mighty sound, throwing the Philistines into confusion as Samuel offered a nursing lamb. The Philistines were defeated, chased as far as Beth-car. Then Samuel erected a stone named Ebenezer between Mizpah and Shen, for "Till now the LORD has helped us." There was peace with Philistia. (1 Samuel 7:3-12)

  Samuel judged in a circuit between Bethel, Gilgal, Mizpah, and Ramah. (1 Samuel 7:15-17)

  **Samuel anoints the first king**

  When he was old, he appointed his sons Abijah and Joel as judges at Beersheba, but they are ungodly and took bribes. The elders wanted a king to judge them instead, so the LORD had him warn them what a king would take from them. He ultimately gave into their demands. (1 Samuel 8)

  The LORD told him to anoint the Benjaminite He sends the next day. On his way to sacrifice day at the high place in the land of Zuph, Saul came up and asked where the seer lives. He told Saul all that is desirable in Israel is his and set him at the head of the hall with the leg that had been reserved. (1 Samuel 9:11-27)

  Samuel anointed Saul then told him to meet him at Gilgal to offer burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then he called the people to Mizpah to announce the new king. After lots failed, the LORD said he was in the baggage. Samuel defined the rights and duties of the kingship and sent Saul home. (1 Samuel 10)

  **Saul performs Samuel's sacrifice for him**

  In a battle with the Philistines at Gilgal, Samuel told Saul he would come in seven days, but didn't come until the day after. Saul performed the bunt offering and peace offerings himself, and Samuel arrived as he finished. Samuel scolded Saul, saying the kingdom would go to a man after His own heart because he did not keep the LORD's command. Then he arose and went up from Gilgal. (1 Samuel 13:8-15)

  **Samuel grieves Saul's disobedience in neglecting to kill the Amalekites**

  The LORD sent Samuel to tell Saul to kill all of Amalek for opposing Israel when they came out of Egypt. After he sent Saul out to battle, the LORD told Samuel he regrets making Saul king for he has disobeyed the command. Samuel was angry and cried to the LORD all night. He rose early and found Saul in Gilgal. Saul said he performed his duty, but Samuel disagreed. He told him the LORD delights in obedience, not sacrifices. Samuel refused to return to worship with Saul. As he turned to leave, Saul tore part of Samuel's cloak, and Samuel told him the LORD has torn his kingdom from him. He asked for Agag who came cheerfully and hacked him into pieces before the LORD. Then he parted, returning to Ramah, and never saw Saul again until the day of his death. But Samuel grieved over Saul. (1 Samuel 15)

  **Samuel anoints the second king**

  While he was grieving Saul, the LORD sent him to offer a sacrifice with Jesse the Bethlehemite because the next king was among his sons. He could not reveal his purpose due to the danger of Saul. Jesse showed seven sons to him, but the LORD rejected all. David was brought in from his sheep and anointed on the spot. Then Samuel went to Ramah. (1 Samuel 16:1-13)

  **Samuel shelters refugee David, and all, even Saul, prophesy**

  David came to him in Ramah, telling him that Saul was trying to murder him, so they both went to live in Naioth. Saul's messengers came and saw the company of the prophets prophesying with Samuel standing as head over them, and the Spirit of God came upon them, and they also prophesied. Two other groups did the same. So Saul himself came, prophesying, and he, too, stripped off his clothes, and he, too, prophesied before Samuel and lay naked all that day and all that night. (1 Samuel 19:18-24)

  **Samuel's Death**

  Samuel died. All Israel assembled and mourned for him, and they buried him in his house at Ramah. (1 Samuel 25:1, Samuel 28:3)

  **The Medium of En-dor raises Samuel**

  The Philistines gathered their forces for war against Israel. The Philistines encamped at Shunem, while Saul gathered all Israel at Gilboa. Saul's heart trembled greatly at the Philistines, but when he inquired of the LORD, He did not answer, by dreams, Urim, or by prophets. Saul asked his servants for a medium, despite having put the mediums and necromancers out of the land, and they recommended the mediums at En-dor. 

  Saul requested for her to bring up Samuel. When she saw Samuel, she screamed, but Saul had her describe him. "I see a god coming up out of the earth." ... "An old man is coming up, and he is wrapped in a robe." Saul recognized the description then bowed and paid homage to Samuel.

  Samuel asked why he was disturbed, and Saul told him about the Philistines and silence from God and that he needed to talk to him. Samuel told him he did not obey the voice of the LORD against Amalek, so He has become his enemy and taken his kingdom away. The LORD will give Israel into the hand of the Philistines, he and his sons shall be with him, and the LORD will give the army of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.

  (1 Samuel 28)

  ### List

  * Prophet Samuel


title: MAC
content:
  Ethernet Media Access Control address or MAC address is a unique hexadecimal number of your network card.

  (LFS101x)


title: Jacob
content:
  ## Israel
   
  * Father: Isaac
  * Mother: 
  * Sons: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, Benjamin
  * Daughters: Dinah

  He was in the line of Christ through Joseph. (Matthew 1:2)

  I want to move you, if God the Holy Ghost shall help me, so that you will say within yourselves, like Queen Esther, “I will go in unto the King, and if I perish, I perish;” and may you add to that the vow of Jacob, “I will not let thee go, except thou bless me!”

  (Spurgeon's Sermons on Prayer by Charles H. Spurgeon (2007). Page 18., https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/the-ravens-cry/#flipbook/)

  ## Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary

  * Father: Matthan
  * Son: Joseph

  He was in the line of Christ through Joseph. (Matthew 1:15)


title: Fat
content:
  Oil is liquid at room temperature and comes from plant sources. It is used in cooking and soapmaking. Essential oil is the fancy version of oil. Also see fat.

  * Algae oil
  * Avocado oil
  * Babassu oil
  * Castor oil
  * Coconut oil
  * Corn oil
  * Cottonseed oil
  * Grapeseed oil
  * Hazelnut Oil
  * Flaxseed oil
  * Jojoba oil
  * Macadamia Nut Oil
  * Olive oil
  * Palm oil
  * Palm kernel oil
  * Peanut oil
  * Safflower Oil
  * Sesame Oil
  * Soybean oil
  * Sunflower Oil
  * Sweet almond oil
  * Truffle Oil
  * Walnut Oil

  Vegetable fats and oils may be more costly than tallow or lard but their quality affords a superior skin-care product.

  The more saturated an oil, the less soluble its soap will be in water, which also means its lather will be weak though longer lasting.

  Scents are more stable in vegetable soap because vegetable oil is odorless compared to animal products.

  (The Natural Soap Book: Making Herbal and Vegetable-Based Soaps by Susan Miller Cavitch, 1959. Page 7-8, 12, 18-30.)


title: Solomon
content:
  The son of David and Bathsheba and the father of Rehoboam. He was in the line of Christ through Joseph. (Matthew 1:8)

  God came to him in a dream and granted him wisdom, wealth, and a long life. He ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt. (1 Kings 4:21) He had dominion over all the region west of the Euphrates from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings west of the Euphrates. (1 Kings 4:24) He had peace on all sides of him. (1 Kings 4:24-25)

  The tenth(?) son of King David.

  * Tribe: Judah 
  * Birthplace: Jerusalem
  * Father: King David
  * Mother: Bathsheba
  * Siblings: Amnon of Ahinoam of Jezreel, Chileab of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur, Adonijah the son of Haggith, Shephatiah the son of Abital, and Ithream of Eglah (2 Samuel 3:2-5), Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada, Eliphelet. (2 Samuel 5:13-16)
  * Daughters: Taphath (1 Kings 4:11), Basemath (1 Kings 4:15), 

  His high officials:

  * Secretaries: Elihoreph and Ahijah the sons of Shisha
  * Recorder: Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud
  * Commander of the Army: Benaiah the son of Jehoiada
  * Priests: Azariah the son of Zadok, Zadok, and Abiathar
  * Over the Officers: Azariah the son of Nathan
  * Priest and King's Friend: Zabud the son of Nathan 
  * In Charge of the Palace: Ahishar
  * In Charge of the Forced Labor: Adoniram the son of Abda

  His twelve officers all over Israel who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for one month in the year.

  * Ben-abinadab
  * Ben-deker
  * Ben-hesed
  * Ben-hur
  * Baana the son of Ahilud
  * Ben-geber
  * Ahinadab the son of Iddo
  * Ahimaaz
  * Baana the son of Hushai
  * Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah
  * Shimei the son of Ela
  * Geber the son of Uri

  (1 Kings 4:1)

  ## Life Events

  * Solomon the King of Israel

  Nathan the prophet spoke the LORD's word to David, a prophecy that seems to refer to both Solomon and Jesus: "When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offsrping after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquiety, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men, but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you. And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever." (2 Samuel 7:12-16)

  The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment of this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here. (Luke 11:29-32)

  ## List

  * Key of Solomon
  * Lesser Key of Solomon
  * The Temple of Solomon, Solomon's Temple


title: Joseph
content:
  ## Joseph of Jacob

  * Father: Jacob
  * Mother: Rachel
  * Siblings: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, Benjamin, Dinah

  Wearer of the Coat of Many Colors, Many-Colored Coat

  * Fair is he, full bright
  * And wonderful of hue. The holy scribes
  * Tell us how Joseph’s many-colored coat,
  * Gleaming with varying dyes of every shade,
  * Brilliant, resplendent, dazzled all men’s eyes
  * That looked upon it. So the panther’s hues
  * Shine altogether lovely, marvelous,
  * While each fair color in its beauty glows
  * Ever more rare and charming than the rest.

  (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/14529/14529-h/14529-h.htm - The Old English Physiologus - Albert S. Cook (2004))

  ## Joseph the father of Jesus Christ

  * Father: Jacob
  * Wife: Mary
  * Son: Jesus Christ

  His genealogy includes the kings of Israel and Abraham. (Matthew 1:1-17)

  Mary became pregnant while betrothed to Joseph, but an angel of the Lord informed him in a dream that He was the Holy Spirit's baby and to name Him Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins. When he awoke, he took his wife but kept her a virgin until His birth. (Matthew 1:18-25)

  The magi followed the star to her child and fell down and worshiped Him, offering Him gifts. When they left, Joseph was warned by an angel in a dream to flee to Egypt, for Herod will try to destroy the child, so they departed by night. After Herod's death, an angel appeared in a dream to tell them to return to Israel. He feared Archelaus, so by dream warning, they settled in Nazareth in Galilee. (Matthew 2:7-23)

  ## Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

  Joseph is a dwarf that makes tombstones in Tarant. He's at 12 East End Avenue. (Joseph)


title: Matthew
content:
  Said to be written by Matthew, though all the gospels are anonymous.

  ## Topics

  **Chapters**

  * 1 - The genealogy of Jesus Christ through Joseph is given, passing through David and the kings of Israel and Abraham. Mary was pregnant while betrothed to Joseph, but an angel of the Lord told him in a dream that she will bear Jesus who will save his people from their sins. Joseph took his wife but knew her not until she gave birth to Jesus.
  * 2 - Wise men from the east came to Jerusalem after the prophecies and the sign of the star. Herod sent them to find the baby king and report back to him. The star guided them to Jesus and Mary, and they worshiped him and gifted him gold, frankincense, and myrrh. A dream warned them not to return to Herod. When they left, an angel told Joseph in a dream to take his family to Egypt, as Herod was to kill all the 2yro boys. When Herod died, an angel appeared in another dream to Joseph to beckon them to Israel, then another dream led him to Nazareth in Galilee.
  * 3 - John the Baptist preached repentance in the wilderness and baptized people from the region in the Jordan River. He called the Pharisees and Sadducees a generation of vipers and told them to bear fruit of repentance or burn. Jesus will come to baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire, and the wheat will be separated from the chaff. Jesus came to be baptized, too, going up from the water with the heavens open to Him, and the Spirit of God descended like a dove and rested on Him. A voice from Heaven spoke, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased."
  * 4 - Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil after fasting 40 days and 40 nights. For each temptation of misuse of His power, Jesus replies with Scripture. Satan offers to give Him all the kingdoms in exchange for worshiping him, and Jesus told him to be gone! You shall only worship the Lord Your God. When John the Baptist was arrested, Jesus withdrew to Galilee and from then on preached to repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. He called fishermen to follow Him - Simon (who is called Peter), Andrew, James the son of Zebedee, John, and their father. He taught all over Galilee and healed the sick and possessed in Syria. Great crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapolis and from Jerusalem and Judea and from beyond the Jordan.
  * 5 - Jesus preached the Beatitudes on the mount. He also preached on salt of the earth and the light of the world, coming not to abolish but to fulfill the Law, not being angry, insulting, or calling others fools, reconciling quickly with others, not committing adultery in your heart, that divorce is adultery, to not swear on oaths, to turn the other cheek, to love your enemies, and to pray for your persecutors.
  * 6 - Do not work to be seen but work towards your Father who is in secret - in giving to the needy, in prayer, and in fasting. Pray like the Lord's Prayer. Do not lay up treasures on earth but in heaven. The eye is the lamp of the body. No one can serve two masters. Your heavenly Father feeds birds and clothes the lily, and anxiety cannot add one hour to your life. Seek first the kingdom and all will be added.
  * 7 - Judge not that you be not judged. Why do you see a speck in your brother's eye but not a log in your own? Do not throw pearls before pigs. As and it will be given to you. Knock and it will be opened. If you who are evil know how to give good gifts, how much more the Father. Golden rule. The gate to life is narrow and found by few. You will recognize false prophets by their fruits. Not everyone who says to me, Lord, will enter heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father. The wise man who built his house on the rock. Jesus finished preaching, and His sermon astonished the crowds, for he taught with authority and not as a scribe. 
  * 8 - Jesus came down from the mountain. A leper came for healing, so Jesus healed him and sent him back to his priest in accordance with the law. Jesus entered Capernaum and met a centurion who wanted his paralyzed servant healed. Jesus said He'd go, but the centurion was unworthy and requested only a word, which immediately healed the servant. Jesus marveled at his faith that surpassed Israelites, for many foreigners will enter heaven, while the sons of the kingdom won't. Jesus healed Peter's mother-in-law and many oppressed with demons and illness. Crowds followed Him, and He told them His path is without a place to lay His head nor allows you to first bury your father. Jesus slept in a storm, but His disciples were afraid. He arose and rebuked the winds and sea, and they obeyed Him. In Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men feared Christ's torment and asked to be sent into pigs, so the whole herd rushed and drowned in the waters. The herdsmen fled and all the city begged Him to leave.

  **Bible Figures**

  * Abijah
  * Abiud
  * Abraham
  * Achim
  * Ahaz
  * Amminadab
  * Amos
  * Andrew
  * Archelaus
  * Asaph
  * Azor
  * wife of Uriah, Bathsheba
  * Boaz
  * David
  * Eleazar
  * Eliud
  * Eliakim
  * Herod
  * Hezekiah
  * Hezron
  * Immanuel
  * Isaac
  * Jacob who was also called Israel, Jacob father of Joseph
  * James the son of Zebedee
  * Jechoniah
  * Jehoshaphat
  * Jeremiah
  * Jesse
  * Jesus Christ
  * John the son of Zebedee
  * John the Baptist
  * Joram
  * Joseph
  * Josiah
  * Jotham
  * Judah
  * Manasseh
  * Mary
  * Matthan
  * Nahshon
  * Obed
  * Perez
  * Rachel
  * Rahab
  * Ram
  * Rehoboam
  * Ruth
  * Salmon
  * Satan, the devil
  * Shealtiel
  * Simon (who is called Peter)
  * Solomon
  * Tamar
  * Uzziah
  * Zadok
  * Zebedee
  * Zerah
  * Zerubbabel

  **Peoples**

  * Pharisees
  * Sadducees
  * Wise men, Magi

  **Places**

  * Capernaum
  * the Decapolis
  * Egypt
  * Galilee
  * Sea of Galilee
  * Jerusalem
  * Jordan River
  * Judea, Wilderness of Judea
  * Naphtali
  * Nazareth
  * Ramah
  * Syria
  * Zebulun

  **Other**

  * Baptism

  **Verses**

  * And do not presume to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father,' for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. (Matthew 3:9-10)
  * I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. (Matthew 3:11)
  * His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire." (Matthew 3:12)
  * And he said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." (Matthew 4:19)
  * "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 5:3)
  * "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God." (Matthew 5:9)
  * But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 5:44-45)
  * For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. (Matthew 5:45)
  * For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. (Matthew 6:21)
  * Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? (Matthew 6:26)
  * And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? (Matthew 6:27)
  * Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. (Matthew 7:1-2)
  * Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you. (Matthew 7:6)
  * Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. (Matthew 7:7-8)
  * Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! (Matthew 7:9-11)
  * Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few. (Matthew 7:13-14)
  * Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits. (Matthew 7:15-16)
  * Not everyone who says to me, "Lord, Lord," will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, "Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?" And then I will declare to them, "I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness. (Matthew 7:21-23)
  * But the centurion replied, "Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to one, 'Go,' and he goes, and to another, 'Come,' and he comes, and to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it." (Matthew 8:8-9)
  * When Jesus head this, he marveled and said to those who followed him, "Truly I tell you, with no one in Israel have I found such faith. I tell you, many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." (Matthew 8:10-12)
  * And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep. And they went and work him, saying, "Save us, Lord; we are perishing." And he said to them, "Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?" Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. (Matthew 8:23-26)


title: Eliab
content:
  Rejected by the LORD while Samuel was searching Jesse's sons for the next king, even though he was tall and handsome. (1 Samuel 16:1-13)

  When he was advanced in years, his oldest sons, Eliab, Abinadab, and Shammah followed Saul in battle against the Philistines, camping in the Valley of Elah against the camps between Socoh and Azekah. When David came to visit the camp, he scoffed at Goliath's challenge to the army of the living God. Eliab became angry, asking David why he came down and with whom he left the sheep. He just knew David had come to see the battle. David asked him what he did, and if it wasn't but a word. They turned away from each other. (1 Samuel 17:12-29)

  When David was fleeing Saul and hid in the cave of Adullam, David's brothers and all his father's house joined him as soon as they heard about it. When 400 men gathered under David, he took Jesse and his wife to Mizpeh of Moab and left them with their king until the prophet Gad told David to return to Judah. They went into the forest of Hereth. (1 Samuel 22)


title: Abinadab
content:
  ## Abinadab

  God struck 70 men for looking upon the ark of the covenant, so the Israelites at the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh sent it to Kiriath-jearim, to the house of Abinadab, consecrating his son Eleazar over it. (1 Samuel 6:19-7:2)

  When King David arrived at the house of Abinadab to take the ark of the Covenant out of Baale-judah to Jerusalem, his sons, Ahio and Uzzah, brought it on a new cart.  David and all the house of Israel were making merry before the LORD with songs, lyres, harps, tambourines, castanets, and cymbals. When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, the oxen stumbled and Uzzah put his hand to the ark and held it, so God struck him down for his error. David was angry, and the place is called Perez-uzzah even still in the days of 2 Samuel. David had it sent to Obed-edom's house for 3 months before realizing he was missing its blessing and had it brought to Jerusalem. (2 Samuel 6)

  ## Jesse's Son

  * **Tribe**: Judah, Bethlehemite
  * **Father**: Jesse
  * **Mother**: Nitzevet, the daughter of Adael (Jewish tradition, not Scripture)
  * **Siblings**: Eliab, Shammah, David

  Rejected by the LORD while Samuel was searching Jesse's sons for the next king. (1 Samuel 16:1-13)

  When he was advanced in years, his oldest sons, Eliab, Abinadab, and Shammah followed Saul in battle against the Philistines, camping in the Valley of Elah against the camps between Socoh and Azekah. When David came to visit the camp, he met his brothers. He then heard Goliath's challenge and fought him. (1 Samuel 17:12-29)

  When David was fleeing Saul and hid in the cave of Adullam, David's brothers and all his father's house joined him as soon as they heard about it. When 400 men gathered under David, he took Jesse and his wife to Mizpeh of Moab and left them with their king until the prophet Gad told David to return to Judah. They went into the forest of Hereth. (1 Samuel 22)

  ## Saul's Son

  * Tribe: Benjamin, clan of the Matrites (1 Samuel 10:20-21)
  * Father: King Saul
  * Mother: Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz
  * Siblings: Jonathan, Ishvi, Malchi-shua, Merab, Michal, and Ish-Bosheth. (1 Samuel 14:49-51; 1 Samuel 31:2; 2 Samuel 2:8)

  Israel fled before Philistines on Mount Gilboa. Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchi-shua were killed, and Saul and his armor-bearer fell upon their own swords. The next day, the Philistines came to strip the slain and found Saul and his sons dead. They cut off Saul's head, stripped his armor, sent messengers throughout Philistia to carry news to the house of their idols and the people, and put his armor in the temple of Ashtaroth and fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan. The people of Jabesh-gilead heard this, went all night to take the body of Saul and his sons and came to Jabesh to burn them there. Their bones were buried under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted 7 days.

  (1 Samuel 31)


title: Shammah
content:
  ## Shammah the son of Jesse the Bethlehemite

  * **Tribe**: Judah, Bethlehemite
  * **Father**: Jesse
  * **Mother**: Nitzevet, the daughter of Adael (Jewish tradition, not Scripture)
  * **Siblings**: Eliab, Abinadab, David

  Rejected by the LORD while Samuel was searching Jesse's sons for the next king. (1 Samuel 16:1-13)

  When he was advanced in years, his oldest sons, Eliab, Abinadab, and Shammah followed Saul in battle against the Philistines, camping in the Valley of Elah against the camps between Socoh and Azekah. When David came to visit the camp, he met his brothers. He then heard Goliath's challenge and fought him. (1 Samuel 17:12-29)

  When David was fleeing Saul and hid in the cave of Adullam, David's brothers and all his father's house joined him as soon as they heard about it. When 400 men gathered under David, he took Jesse and his wife to Mizpeh of Moab and left them with their king until the prophet Gad told David to return to Judah. They went into the forest of Hereth. (1 Samuel 22)

  ## Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite

  One of the three of David's mighty men whose chief was Josheb-basshebeth. Shammah was the son of Agee the Hararite. The Philistines gathered together at Lehi, where there was a plot of ground full of lentils, and the men fled from the Philistines. But he took his stand in the midst of the plot and defended it and struct down the Philistines and the LORD worked a great victory. (2 Samuel 23:8,11-12)

  ## Shammah of Harod is one of the thirty. (2 Samuel 23:25)

  ## Shammah the Hararite is one of the thirty. (2 Samuel 23:33)

  ## Shammah is one of the three (2 Samuel 23:8)


title: King
content:
  * Hazael
  * Herod
  * Og
  * Sihon

  ## Amalekites

  * Agag

  ## Ammonites

  * Baalis

  ## Babylon

  * Nebuchadnezzar
  * Evil-Merodach

  ## Egypt

  * Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt
  * Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt
  * Shishak king of Egypt

  ## Geshur

  * Talmai king of Geshur

  ## Israel

  * Saul
  * Ish-bosheth
  * David
  * Ahab
  * Ahaziah

  ## Judah

  * David
  * Hezekiah - Fully faithful to God (2 Kings 18-23)
  * Jehoiakim, son of Josiah
  * Jehoshaphat, son of Asa
  * Josiah, son of Amon - Fully faithful to God (2 Kings 18-23)
  * Jehoiachin
  * Zedekiah, son of Josiah
  * Jeconiah

  ## Persia

  * Ahasuerus

  ## Philistines

  * Achish the son of Maacah, King of Gath.
  * Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath

  ## Syria

  * Ben-hadad

  ## Tyre

  * Hiram king of Tyre


title: Eye
content:
  ## Bible

  Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, "Let me take the speck out of your eye," when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. 

  (Matthew 7:1-5)


title: Sheep
content:
  Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits. (Matthew 7:15-16)

  ## List

  * Lamb


title: Run
content:
  ## Linear Equations in Pre-Algebra

  Slope = rise/run. rise is the change in y, while the run is the change in x.

  (https://www.mathplanet.com/education/pre-algebra/graphing-and-functions/the-slope-of-a-linear-function)


title: Function
content:
  ## Math

  Expresses the relationship between two or more terms called variables and is typically written in the form of an equation. If each value of x can be associated with one value of y, then y is a function of x. y is the dependent variable. A function passes the vertical line test.

  * y = 2x ~ this is a single-variable function, since y is only dependent on one other variable.
  * y = mx + c  ~ m and c are constants or coefficents.
  * A = lw ~ two-variable function, plotted on a three-dimensional graph
  * V = lwh ~ plotted on a graph in four dimensions, which requires imagination
  * f(x) = a<sup>x</sup> ~ an exponential function

  (Programming Game AI by Example by Mat Buckland, 2005. Page 3-5, 18.01.1x)

  * Domain - set of allowable input values
  * Range - set of all possible output values
  * Interval notation is often used to express sets of numbers like domains and ranges, denoting closed intervals, open intervals, and half-open half-closed intervals.

  (18.01.1x)

  ## Programming

  A mapping from values of one type to values of another type.

  In Haskell, argument and result types are unrestricted. Functions with multiple arguments or results are possible using lists or tuples.

  * not :: Bool -> Bool
  * isDigit :: Char -> Bool
  * another
  * add :: (Int,Int) -> Int
  * add (x,y) = x+y
  * or
  * zeroto :: Int -> [Int]
  * zeroto n = [0..n]

  (FP101x)

  ### Topics

  * Curried Function
  * One-to-One Function
  * Overloaded Function
  * Polymorphic Function
  * Potential Function


title: Math
content:
  A subject.

  * Algebra
  * Calculus
  * Geometry
  * Linear Algebra
  * Pre-Algebra
  * Trigonometry
  * Vector Math

  **PEMDAS Functions**

  * Parentheses
  * Exponents
  * Multiplication
  * Division
  * Addition
  * Subtration

  **Signs**

  * Factorial
  * Minus sign
  * Plus sign

  **Topics**

  * Absolute Value
  * Angle
  * Base
  * Cartesian Coordinate System
  * Ceiling
  * Comprehension Notation
  * Constant
  * Continuity
  * Cosecant
  * Cosine
  * Cotangent
  * Coversine
  * Covercosine
  * Cube Root
  * Curve
  * Degree
  * Dependent Variable
  * Derivative
  * Discontinuity
  * DNE
  * Dot Product
  * Double Zero
  * Equation
  * Excosecant
  * Exponent
  * Exponential Growth
  * Factorial
  * Floor
  * Fractional Exponent
  * Function
  * Function Composition
  * Gradient
  * Graph
  * Greatest Integer Function
  * Hacovercosine
  * Hacoversine
  * Havercosine
  * Haversine
  * Hypotenuse
  * Infinity
  * Integral
  * Interval
  * Limit
  * Line
  * Line Segment
  * Logarithm
  * Magnitude
  * Matrix
  * Matrix Transformations
  * Multiplicity
  * Origin
  * Parabola
  * Period
  * Permutation
  * Pi, π
  * Point
  * Polynomial
  * Power
  * Probability
  * Proportionality 
  * Pythagorean Theorem
  * Radian
  * Radical
  * Range
  * Ray
  * Reciprocal
  * Right Angle
  * Right Triangle
  * Secant
  * Set Comprehension
  * Sine
  * Single-Variable Function
  * Slope
  * Square root
  * Standard Position of an Angle
  * Subtend
  * Tangent
  * Terminal Side of an Angle
  * Unit Circle
  * Variable
  * Vector
  * Vercosine
  * Versine
  * x-axis
  * xy plane
  * y-axis


title: Plane
content:
  ## Geometry

  A flat surface without edges or boundaries extending infinitely in two dimensions. It's named by three points in the plane that are not on the same line. A plane with points X, Y, and Z arranged in a triangle can be plane XYZ.

  (https://www.mathplanet.com/education/pre-algebra/introducing-geometry/geometry-fundamental-statements)


title: Pre-Algebra
content:
  * Number, Property, Multiple
  * Coordinate System, Ordered Pair, Origin, Number Line
  * Equation, Inequality, Open Sentence
  * Absolute Value
  * Perimeter, Area
  * Monomial, Polynomial, Binomial, Trinomial, Degree, Term, Leading Coefficient, Coefficient
  * Power, Exponent, 
  * Prime Number, Composite Number, Factor, Factor Tree, Greatest Common Factor (GCF), Lowest Common Denominator (LCD) AKA Least Common Multiple (LCM), Simplest Form
  * Scientific Notation
  * Linear Equation, System of Equations
  * Ratio, Fraction, Decimal, Percent, Rate, Proportion, Cross Product, Unit Rate
  * Measures of Central Tendency: Average, Mean, Median, Mode
  * Steam-and-Leaf Plot, Box-and-Whiskers Plot, Tree Diagram
  * Permutation, Combination, Factorial
  * Odds, Probability
  * Geometry: Point, Line, Line Segment, Ray, Angle, Plane, Circle, Arc, Pie Chart, Transversal, Triangle, Quadrilateral, Polygon, Transformation, Rotation, Translation, Reflection, Pyramid, Prism, Cylinder, Cone, Surface Area, Volume
  * Square Root
  * Pythagorean Theorem
  * Trigonometry, Sine, Cosine, Tangent

  Next is Algebra.


title: Algebra
content:
  * Factored Form
  * Polynomial Equation
  * Root
  * Zero-Product Property

  Previously was Pre-Algebra.


title: Slope
content:
  The slope (m) of a line in a linear equation.

  ## Find the Slope

  * m = (y<sub>2</sub> - y<sub>1</sub>) / (x<sub>2</sub>-x<sub>1</sub>)
  * rise/run
  * Δy/Δx
  * Δf/Δx
  * f(x<sub>2</sub>)-f(x<sub>1</sub>) / x<sub>2</sub>-x<sub>1</sub>
  * the average rate of change of f(x) with respect to x. 

  (https://www.mathplanet.com/education/pre-algebra/graphing-and-functions/the-slope-of-a-linear-function, 18.01.1x)

  * Vertical lines have an infinite slope.
  * Horizontal lines have a slope of 0.

  ## Topics

  * Secant Line


title: Linear Equation
content:
  A linear equation is an equation with two variables whose graph is a line. The graph of the linear equation is a set of points in the coordinate plane that all are solutions to the equation. If all variables represent real numbers one can graph the equation by plotting enough points to recognize a pattern then connect the points to include all points. The easiest 2 points to plot are the x-intercept and the y-intercept.

  * y = x + 2 - a straight 45 degree line rising from Quadrant III into Quadrant I, intersecting the y-axis at (2,0)
  * Just solving for x = -1, 0, and 1 (y = 1, 2, 3) gives isolated points. This is an example of a discreet function. 
  * If you draw a line through all points and extend in both directions, you display a continuous function.

  (https://www.mathplanet.com/education/pre-algebra/graphing-and-functions/linear-equations-in-the-coordinate-plane)

  ## Graphing Inequalities

  ≤ and ≥ use a solid line, and < and > use a dotted line. Fill in above or below the line to represent the included values.

  (https://www.mathplanet.com/education/pre-algebra/graphing-and-functions/graphing-linear-inequalities)

  Systems of equations contain two or more equations.

  (https://www.mathplanet.com/education/pre-algebra/graphing-and-functions/solve-systems-of-equations-by-graphing)


title: Fear
content:
  I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. ~ Nelson Mandela

   Fear robs us of our peace and faith, dulls our senses, confuses us, and causes irrationality. It can be a small dread or a paralyzing force, but it is a spiritual force and can only be conquered by a greater spiritual force - faith in God. Fear is a choice, and Jesus said "fear not." Fight fear with words. Say "Jesus has not given me a spirit of fear, but of power and love and a sound mind. I will not be afraid because Jesus said not to. When I am tempted to fear, I will see you made me secure, capable, and free.

  (Keep Calm and Trust God by Jake Provance and Keith Provance, 2014. Pages 13-18)

  ## Verses

  * Isaiah 41:10
  * Joshua 1:9
  * Psalms 27:1
  * 2 Timothy 1:7

  # List

  * Disappointment
  * Failure
  * Irrational Phobias (Love, Disability, Debt)
  * Isolation
  * Mortality
  * Public Shame
  * The Unknown


title: 1 Kings
content:
  ## Topics

  **Figures**

  * Abda
  * Abishag
  * Abiathar
  * Abijah
  * Abner
  * Absalom
  * Achish
  * Adonijah
  * Adoniram
  * Ahab
  * Ahaziah
  * Ahijah
  * Ahimaaz
  * Ahinadab
  * Ahishar
  * Ahilud
  * Amasa
  * Amon
  * Azariah
  * Baana
  * Baasha
  * Barzillai
  * Bathsheba
  * Ben-abinadab
  * Ben-deker
  * Ben-geber
  * Ben-hadad
  * Ben-hesed
  * Ben-hur
  * Benaiah
  * David
  * Ela
  * Elihoreph
  * Elijah
  * Elisha
  * Geber
  * Gera
  * Haggith
  * Hiram
  * Hushai
  * Iddo
  * Jair
  * Jehoiada
  * Jehoshaphat the king of Judah
  * Jehu
  * Jeroboam
  * Jether
  * Jezebel
  * Joash
  * Jonathan
  * Hazael
  * Maacah
  * Manasseh
  * Micaiah the son of Imlah
  * Naboth
  * Nadab
  * Nathan
  * Nebat
  * Ner
  * Nimshi
  * Obadiah
  * Paruah
  * Rei
  * Shaphat
  * Shimei
  * Shisha
  * Solomon
  * Taphath
  * Uri
  * Wife of Jeroboam (Ano?)
  * Zabud
  * Zadok
  * Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah

  **Peoples**

  * Amorite
  * Benjaminite
  * Cherethite
  * Gileadite
  * Jezreelite
  * Pelethite
  * Shunammite
  * Tishbite

  **Places**

  * Abel-meholah
  * Aphek
  * Argob
  * Arubboth
  * Asher
  * Bashan
  * Bealoth
  * Beersheba
  * Benjamin
  * Beth-shean
  * Bethshean
  * Bethshemesh
  * Damascus
  * Elonbeth-hanan
  * En-rogel
  * Ephraim
  * Euphrates
  * Gath
  * Gibeon
  * Gihon
  * Gilead
  * Hebron
  * Hepher
  * Horeb
  * Israel
  * Issachar
  * Jezreel
  * Jokmeam
  * Jordan
  * Judah
  * Kishon
  * Mahanaim
  * Makaz
  * Megiddo
  * Mount Carmel
  * Naphath-dor
  * Naphtali
  * Ramoth-gilead
  * Samaria
  * Serpent's Stone
  * Shaalbim
  * Shiloh
  * Socoh
  * Syria
  * Taanach
  * Zarethan

  **Other**

  * Asherim (Asherah?)
  * Hall of Judgment
  * Hall of Pillars
  * Hall of the Throne
  * High Places
  * horns of iron
  * House of the Forest of Lebanon
  * The House of the LORD
  * the offering of the oblation
  * Sackcloth
  * threshing floor


title: 1
content:
  One is neither a prime number nor a composite number. One is a factor of every number. Prime numbers only have one and themselves as their factors.

  (https://www.mathplanet.com/education/pre-algebra/discover-fractions-and-factors/factorization-and-prime-numbers)

  ## Topics

  *    1
  *    One-to-one function


title: Judah
content:
  The son of Jacob and the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar. He was in the line of Christ through Joseph. (Matthew 1:2-3)

  Benjamin and Judah were the two tribes that stayed with David's lineage when the kingdom divided at Solomon's death. (1 Kings 11:35-12:24)

  (The ESV Study BibleTM, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 1369)

  After Saul died, David was anointed in Hebron over the house of Judah, but Abner the son of Ner made Ish-bosheth the son of Saul king over Israel. (2 Samuel 2:1-11)

  In the Battle of Gibeon, Joab the son of Zeruiah represented David and Abner the son of Ner, Ish-bosheth. 19 of David's men were missing at the end of the day, while 360 of Abner's men were struck down. (2 Samuel 2:12-32)

  All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, "Behold, we are your bone and flesh. In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. And the LORD said to you, 'You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.'" So the elders made a covenant with David and anointed him king over Israel. (2 Samuel 5:1-5)

  ## Timeline

  * King David: 7 years, 6 months (2 Samuel 2:10)
  * King Josiah, son of Amon (Jeremiah 1:1-3)
  * 13th year of his reign, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah. (Jeremiah 1:1-3)
  * King Jehoiakim, son of Josiah (Jeremiah 1:1-3)
  * Word of the LORD came to Jeremiah again (Jeremiah 1:1-3)
  * King Zedekiah (Jeremiah 1:1-3)
  * End of the eleventh year, the fifth month of the captivity of Jerusalem, the word of the LORD no longer came to Jeremiah (Jeremiah 1:1-3)


title: Rei
content:
  Rei did not support Adonijah when he was exalting himself, saying "I will be king," during King David's old age. Neither did Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, David's mighty men, Shimei, or Nathan the prophet.

  (1 Kings 1:8)


title: 40
content:
  40, Forty

  Goliath challenged the army of the Living God for 40 days. (1 Samuel 17:16)

  David reigned 40 years. (Beginning at age 30, 7 in Hebron over Judah and 33 in Jerusalem over all Israel)

  And [Elijah] arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God. (1 Kings 19:4-8)


title: Mount
content:
  ## List

  * Mount Amana
  * Mount Carmel
  * Mount Gilboa
  * Horeb
  * Mount Moreh
  * Mount Olympus
  * Mount Paran
  * Sermon on the Mount


title: Hebron
content:
  **David shares his Amalekite spoils with Hebron**

  David recovered the people and things of Ziklag from the band of Amalekite raiders and additional spoils. When he returned to Ziklag, he sent part of the spoil to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, "Here is a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of the LORD." It was for those in Bethel, Ramoth of the Negeb, Jattir, Aroer, Siphmoth, Eshtemoa, Racal, the cities of the Jerahmeelites and Kenites, in Hormah, Borashan, Athach, Hebron, for all the places where David and his men had roamed. (1 Samuel 30)

  **The LORD sends David to rule in Hebron**

  When David had time to mourn and lament Saul and Jonathan, he inquired of the LORD if he should go up to any of the cities of Judah. Being told yes, he inquired which, and the LORD said, "To Hebron." David went up with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, and his men, and lived in the towns of Hebron. The men of Judah came, and they anointed David king over the house of Judah. (2 Samuel 1-2:1-4)

  Hebron was David's base. He ruled Judah from Hebron, and his military returned to Hebron after the Battle of Gibeon. (2 Samuel 2:11, 32)

  All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron to make a covenant with him and anoint him king over all Israel and Judah. (2 Samuel 5:1-5)

  ## Pool of Hebron

  King David ordered the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, to be hanged beside the pool at Hebron for killing righteous Ish-bosheth in his own home. (2 Samuel 4:9-12)

  ## Locations

  * The tomb of Abner at Hebron
  * Pool of Hebron


title: Israel
content:
  When Jacob went into Egypt, and the Egyptians oppressed them, Israel's fathers cried out to the LORD and the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and made them dwell in this place. (1 Samuel 12:8-9)

  **Israel loses King Saul**

  The Philistines gathered their forces for war against Israel. Achish had David join them. The Philistines encamped at Shunem, while Gaul gathered all Israel at Gilboa. Saul's heart trembled greatly at the Philistines and sought out the medium at En-dor to raise Samuel. Samuel said Israel's army would be given into the hand of the Philistines. (1 Samuel 28)

  The Philistines fought against Israel, and Israel fled and were slain on Mount Gilboa. They overtook Saul and his sons, striking down Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchi-shua. The battle pressed hard against Saul. The archers badly wounded him, so he and his armor-bearer fell on their own swords. The men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those beyond the Jordan fled their cities, and the Philistines came and lived in them. The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons dead on Mount Gilboa, so they cut off Saul's head and stripped off his armor and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to the house of their idols and the people. They put his armor in the temple of Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan. The people of Jabesh-gilead took the body of Saul and his sons in the night when they learned what happened. (1 Samuel 30)

  **Israel rallies behind King Ish-bosheth, while Judah, King David**

  While David was anointed king of Judah, Abner the son of Ner made Ish-bosheth the son of Saul king over Gilead, the Ashurites, Jezreel, Ephraim, and Benjamin, and all Israel, in Mahanaim. (2 Samuel 2:9)

  In the battle of Gibeon, Joab the son of Zeruiah represented David against Abner the son of Ner and the servants of Ish-bosheth at the place that became Helkath-hazzurim. Then the three sons of Zeuriah, Joab, Abishai, and Asahel, pursued Abner. Abner killed Asahel, and the battle continued until Abner and the people of Benjamin prepared for a last stand on the hill of Ammah as the sun was going down. Abner called for the fight to end, and Joab complied. David's men missed 19 men and returned to Hebron in the morning, while Abner's men returned to Mahanaim down 360 men. (2 Samuel 2)

  **Israel unites under King David**

  All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, "Behold, we are your bone and flesh. In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who leg out and brought in Israel. And the LORD said to you, 'You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.'" So the elders made a covenant with David and anointed him king over Israel. 

  David took the stronghold of Zion from the Jebusite inhabitants and made Jerusalem the city of David.

  When the Philistines learned David was king, they spread out in the Valley of Rephaim, and David inquired of the LORD and defeated them at Baal-perazim and carried away their idols. Then, again, they came, and the LORD had David defeat them from the rear, and David struck them down from Geba to Gezer.

  (2 Samuel 5)

  **The Ark is moved to Jerusalem**

  King David moved the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem, and Uzzah was struck down in the process. (2 Samuel 6)

  Ahijah the prophet prophesied that Israel would be rooted out of their good land and scattered beyond the Euphrates because of the sins of Jeroboam. (1 Kings 14:15-16)

  And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. And when you have multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, declares the LORD, they shall no more say, "The ark of the covenant of the LORD." It shall not come to mind or be remembered or missed; it shall not be made again. At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the LORD, and all nations shall gather to it, to the presence of the LORD in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart. In those days the house of Judah shall join the house of Israel, and together they shall come from the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers for a heritage. (Jeremiah 3:15-18)

  ## Country

  * Hebrew

  ## Monarchy

  * King Saul
  * King David - 40 years. He became king at 30, reigning at Hebron over Judah 7 years and six months, and Jerusalem over Israel and Judah for 33 years. (2 Samuel 5:4-6)
  * King Solomon
  * King Ahab


title: Egypt
content:
  The LORD brought the Israelites out of Egypt. (Jeremiah 2:6) When Jacob went into Egypt, and the Egyptians oppressed them, Israel's fathers cried out to the LORD and the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and made them dwell in this place. (1 Samuel 12:8-9)

  **David raids Egypt but tells Achish he raids his own people**

  After fleeing from Saul to Philistia with Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath, David made Ziklag his base of operations for military exploits against the Geshurites, Girzites, and Amalekites as far as Shur, to the land of Egypt. He reported his raids back to Achish as against the Negeb of Judah, Jerahmeelites, and Kenites and gained Achish's trust. (1 Samuel 27)

  **An Egyptian leads David to Ziklag's people and possessions**

  A dying Egyptian servant to an Amalekite raider betrayed the band's position to David, and he was able to recover his wives and all the people of Ziklag and all the things stolen and more, the herds of the band. (1 Samuel 30)

  We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough (Lamentations 5:6)

  An angel of the Lord warned Joseph in a dream to flee with his family to Egypt before Herod finds and destroys Jesus. This was to fulfill the prophecy "Out of Egypt I called my son." (Matthew 2:13-15, Hosea 11:1)

  # Places

  * Cairo
  * Carchemish
  * River Euphrates
  * Heliopolis
  * Memphis
  * Migdol
  * Nile
  * Pathros
  * Tahpanhes

  ## Figures

  * Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt
  * Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt
  * Shishak king of Egypt


title: Jeremiah
content:
  For the man, see Prophet Jeremiah

  ## Summary

  * 1 - The LORD called Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah in Benjamin during year 13 of King Josiah's reign. The LORD consecrated him before he was born to be a prophet. Jeremiah thought he was too young, but He put His words in his word. He foretold a disaster coming from the north because they worshiped other gods. He told him to say everything commanded of him and not be afraid.
  * 2 - Jeremiah was to proclaim to Jerusalem that they were once devoted but now even the governors, shepherds, and prophets do not know the LORD. They went after worthless Baal idols and only to act innocent and turn to Him in times of need. They forsake the fountain of living waters and hew out broken cisterns.
  * 3 - Israel acted so faithlessly as whore with idols that the LORD divorced her, and Judah saw and did the same thing. Israel didn't hide her adultery and showed herself more righteous than Judah who did. the LORD will not be angry and provide shepherds after His own heart, if they acknowledge their guilt and rebellion. In the future, the ark of the covenant of the LORD shall not come to mind, be missed, or be remade. Jerusalem shall be the throne of the LORD, all nations shall gather to it, and Judah and Israel's houses shall rejoin and return to their fathers' land, the land they lost for their disobedience to the LORD's voice. 
  * 10 - The LORD says to Jeremiah not to learn the ways of the nations for their customs are vanity. They decorate trees that cannot walk or speak. Jeremiah exalts Him as wiser than idols made by skilled craftsmen. The gods who did not make the heavens and earth shall perish, as will goldsmiths. God is bringing captivity and distress from the north to make Judah's cities a desolate jackal lair. The shepherds do not inquire of the LORD.
  * 31 - Joy comes in the morning
  * 41 - Gedaliah the son of Ahikam was murdered by Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, sent by Baalis the king of the Ammonites. Temple worshippers from afar came to offer sacrifices, and Ishmael killed many of them, too. Johanan the son of Kareah assembled defecting leaders of the forces and captives and fled to Geruth Chimham then Egypt before the Chaldeans retaliated to their installed governor's murder.
  * 42 - The leaders of the forces and the greatest to least of the people came to Jeremiah and asked him to pray, willing the LORD to be a true and faithful witness against them if they disobey, whether His words be good or bad. After 10 days, He responded that he relents of the disaster, and the king of Babylon will show mercy to them. If they remain in this land, He will build them up and not pull them down; plant them and not pluck them up. If they go to Egypt instead, they shall become an execration and die by sword, famine, and pestilence.
  * 43 - All the insolent men insisted Jeremiah was lying and was sent by Baruch the son of Neriah to deliver them into death or exile in Babylon. All the commanders of the forces took the remnant of Judah into Egypt at Tahpanhes. God told Jeremiah there to hide large stones in the mortar in the pavement at the entrance to Pharaoh's palace and tell Judah that he will place Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon's throne above them. He will bring pestilence, captivity, and sword. He will burn the Egyptian idols and their temples and break the obelisks of Heliopolis.
  * 44 - The word of the LORD concerning all Judeans who lived in Egypt at Migdol, Tahpanhes, Memphis, and Pathros, was that they saw the disaster because of their offering and service to other gods and their denial of prophets' warnings. The people in Pathros rejected Jeremiah and credited drink and cake offerings to the queen of heaven for good times. Jeremiah responds with the LORD's words that His name would no longer be invoked by Judah, and they will face disaster, sword, famine, and virtually no escape back home. The remnant will see whose word stands. Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt will fall like Zedekiah king of Judah fell to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
  * 45 - Jeremiah spoke the LORD's word for Baruch in Jehoiakim's 4th year, that although Baruch has complained about the current situation, He has broken down and plucked up the whole land he built and planted. He shouldn't seek great things, but he will survive the war.
  * 46 - The LORD spoke to Jeremiah concerning Egypt and Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt's army. The LORD will deliver Amon of Thebes, Pharaoh, Egypt, her gods, and her kings into Babylon's hand. Medicines and balm won't heal them, and warrior has stumbled against warrior. The LORD also spoke about Nebuchadnezzar's coming attack of Egypt to be declared in Egypt, Migdol, Memphis, and Tahpanhes. Nebuchadnezzar will come like Tabor and Carmel, lay Memphis to waste, and bite Egypt like a fly bites a heifer. Egypt will flee like a serpent, but Babylon will come like locusts and cut down the whole forest. Then Egypt will be inhabited again like the old days, and Jacob and Israel will be saved from far away, though disciplined in just measure.
  * 47 - Jeremiah prophesies the coming destruction of Philistia from the north like an overflowing torrent, that it will be cut off from Tyre and Sidon. Gaza and Ashkelon will perish.
  * 48 - Jeremiah prophesies the coming destruction of Moab, its god and priests and officials, its cities, its glory, and riches.They are broken like a vessel for which no one cares. Terror, pit, and snare are before them. Yet He will restore their fortunes in the latter days.
  * 49 - Jeremiah prophesies the destruction of the Ammonites. Milcom dispossessed Gad, so Israel shall dispossess those who dispossessed him. Rabbah, its villages, Ai will face terror from all who are around them. Then the LORD will restore their fortunes. Jeremiah prophesied the destruction of Edom, that it would be more thorough than thieves. The fatherless and widows will be preserved, but all will drink the cup of destruction. It will become a horror like Sodom and Gomorrah. People will flee like from a lion from the Jordan jungle, and the LORD will appoint new shepherds. Jeremiah prophesied that Damascus has weakened and her young men and soldiers shall be destroyed. Jeremiah prophesied Nebuchadnezzar destroying Kedar and taking their flocks, tents, curtains, goods, and camels; also that Hazor shall become a haunt of jackals, an everlasting waste. Jeremiah prophesied in the beginning of Zedekiah's reign that the LORD will break Elam's might, scatter them, destroy them, and set His throne there. But in the latter days, their fortunes will be restored.
  * 50 - Jeremiah prophesied the surprise destruction of Babylon from the north by archers, that they would face what they had done to others and no man shall dwell there. Bel and Merodach are dismayed. The lost sheep of Israel will flee Babylon and return to Zion, to Israel, to feed on Carmel, Bashan, Ephraim, and Gilead after being picked off by lions, by Assyria, and Nebuchadnezzar. The remnant of Israel and Judah will be pardoned of iniquity and sin.
  * 51 - Jeremiah prophesies the destruction of Babylon, the adversary of a God of recompense after destroying His temple and devouring the Jews' delicacies. She was a golden cup in the LORD's hand, making all the earth drunken, a destroying mountain, but now falls. Israel and Judah should escape. As many men as locusts will fight Babylon, the kings of the Medes, Ararat, Minni, Ashkenaz. "By his understanding stretched out the heavens," the LORD who toils for glory and is worthy. Idol makers and laborers in Babylon are stupid and toil for death and fire. The attackers are His hammer to break in pieces Babylon. No stone will be taken as a cornerstone. The greatest nation becomes a horror. Bel will be punished, and the government will sleep perpetually. Jeremiah wrote all his words concerning Babylon and had Seraiah the son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, read them in Babylon, pray, tie a stone to the book, and cast it in the midst of the Euphrates then say Babylon will rise no more because of the coming disaster. 
  52 - Recounting the fall of Jerusalem. Zedekiah was installed as king at 21 by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, warred with him, and was imprisoned in Babylon until death.

  ## Topics

  **Figures**

  * Ahikam, the son of Shaphan
  * Amon of Thebes
  * Azariah the son of Hoshaiah
  * Baalis the king of the Ammonites
  * Baruch the son of Neriah
  * Bel
  * Ben-hadad
  * Chemosh
  * the sons of Ephai the Netophathite
  * Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah
  * Gedaliah the son of Ahikam
  * Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah
  * Hilkiah
  * Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt
  * Ishmael the son of Nethaniah
  * Jeremiah
  * Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah
  * Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah
  * Johanan the son of Kareah
  * Merodach
  * Milcom
  * Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
  * Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard
  * Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt
  * Prophet Jeremiah
  * Seraiah the son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah
  * Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth
  * Zedekiah king of Judah

  **Peoples**

  * Ammonites
  * Chaldeans
  * House of Israel
  * House of Jacob
  * Judeans
  * Medes
  * Philistines

  **Places**

  * Ai
  * Anathoth
  * Arabah
  * Ararat
  * Arnon
  * Aroer
  * Arpad
  * Ashkelon
  * Ashkenaz
  * Babylon
  * Bashan
  * Beth-diblathaim
  * Beth-gamul
  * Beth-meon
  * Bethel
  * Bozrah
  * Caphtor
  * Carchemish
  * Carmel
  * Chaldea
  * Cush
  * Damascus
  * Dedan
  * Dibon
  * Edom
  * Eglath-shelishiyah
  * Egypt
  * Elam
  * Elealeh
  * River Euphrates
  * Evil-Merodach king of Babylon
  * Gad
  * Gaza
  * Gilead
  * Hamath
  * Hazor
  * Heliopolis
  * Heshbon
  * Holon
  * Horonaim
  * Israel
  * Jahaz
  * Jahzah
  * Jazer
  * Sea of Jazer
  * Jericho
  * Jerusalem
  * Judah
  * Kedar
  * Kerioth
  * Kir-hareseth
  * Kiriathaim
  * Lud
  * Luhith
  * Memphis
  * Mephaath
  * Merathaim
  * Migdol
  * Minni
  * Mizpah
  * Moab
  * Nebo
  * Nile River
  * Nimrim
  * Pathros
  * Pekod
  * Philistia
  * Put
  * Rabbah
  * Red Sea
  * Riblah
  * Shiloh
  * Sibmah
  * Sidon
  * The tableland
  * Tabor
  * Tahpanhes
  * Teman
  * Thebes
  * Topheth, Valley of the Son of Hinnom, Valley of Slaughter
  * Tyre
  * Zoar

  **Other**

  * Ark of the Covenant

  **Verses**

  * Jeremiah 9:1 - Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
  * Jeremiah 10:12 - It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.
  * Jeremiah 10:13 - When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses. 
  * Jeremiah 10:23-24 - I know, O LORD, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps. Correct me, O LORD, but in justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing. 
  * Jeremiah 19:10-11 - Then you shall break the flash in the sight of the men who go with you, and shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, so that it can never be mended.'
  * Jeremiah 20:9 - If I say, "I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name," there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.

  ## List

  * Prophet Jeremiah
  * Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah (Jeremiah 52:1)
  * Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, son of Habazziniah (Jeremiah 35:3)


title: Prophet Jeremiah
content:
  The son of Hilkiah in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin.

  * **Tribe**: Levite
  * **Father**: Hilkiah

  (Jeremiah 1:1, The ESV Study Bible<sup>TM</sup>, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 1369)

  **His ministry** 

  He was known by God and consecrated and appointed a prophet to the nations before he was formed in the womb.

  (Jeremiah 1:4-5)

  The word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the 13th year of his reign. It also came in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, and until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month. 
  He ministered from circa 627 B.C. from the reign of Judah's last good king to sometime after the fall of Jerusalem at the hands of the Babylonians in 587. The nation slid into exile anyway. 

  (Jeremiah 1:1-3, The ESV Study Bible<sup>TM</sup>, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 1369)

  ## Prophecies

  He was called to preach and write about Judah's sin (to pluck up and to break down), its consequences and judgment (to destroy and to overthrow), and hope and renewal (to build and to plant). He was still dependent on his parents and afraid, but the LORD was with him to deliver him. God touched his mouth and put His words in it. (Jeremiah 1:4-16) He made him a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land. (Jeremiah 1:18-19)

  Jeremiah saw an almond (shaqed) branch, and God says he saw well, for He is watching over (shoqed) His word to perform it. (Jeremiah 1:11-12) 

  Jeremiah saw a boiling pot, facing away from the north. Disaster shall be let loose upon all the inhabitants of the land. All the tribes of the kingdoms of the north shall come and set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem. (Jeremiah 1:13-16)

  Zedekiah's opposition to Babylon eventually led the Babylonians to conquer Jerusalem in the fifth month (July/August) (Jeremiah 39:1-10) of 587 or 586 B.C. The captivity lasted until c.538-535 B.C., when Cyrus allowed the Jews to return to their homeland. (Ezra 1). Jeremiah prophesied the exile would last 70 years, and it did.

  (The ESV Study Bible<sup>TM</sup>, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 1369)

  ## References

  * Scorpiace (ch7) by Tertullian
  * Lives of the Prophets
  * Works of Jerome
  * De Ortu Et Obitu Patrum by Isidore of Seville
  * Historia Scholastica by Peter Comestor (12th century)
  * One Jewish tradition claims Nebuchadnezzar took Jeremiah from Egypt to Babylon during his invasion in ~569 B.C., and Jeremiah died there.


title: Moses
content:
  ## Bible

  * **Mother**: Jochebed (birth), Pharaoh's Daughter (adoptive)

  ## Pharaoh's Daughter

  Surely, Pharaoh's daughter (Mose's adoptive mother) should top the list of righteous Gentiles, courageously and compassionately delivering a child from death, a child who would one day act as Israel's great deliverer. But her adopted son, whom she had taken care of for forty years, had to flee his home in Egypt in order to escape Pharaoh's wrath.  (Exodus 2:1-10)

  When Jacob went into Egypt, and the Egyptians oppressed them, Israel's fathers cried out to the LORD and the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and made them dwell in this place. (1 Samuel 12:8-9)

  ## Authorship

  * Pentateuch: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy


title: Jochebed
content:
  Her name means The Lord is Glory.

  * **Tribe**: Levite
  * **Husband**: Amram
  * **Son**: Moses

  Her fierce love for her son, coupled with her faith, enabled her to act heroically in the midst of great oppression, despite her life in bondage as a slave, because God not only preserved the son she surrendered to him but also restored her child to her. 

  (Exodus 2:1-10, Hebrews 11:23)


title: Life
content:
  ## Life Magazine

  Anti-imperialist pictorial magazine founded in 1883 and lasted until 1936 until it was bought out and became the Life magazine I grew up with. It was inspired by British punch with black and white graphics, fine line drawing graphics with a mix of humor, politics, fashion, drama, and society. They mixed powerful graphics right next to social events. Their motto was "while there's life, there's hope." One Christmas, they published the Anglo-Saxon Christmas of 1899 with the caption "war on earth, good will to nobody." 

  (VPx)

  ## Rude-α Song

  * Maybe I don’t know what to do
  * Hurry up, my mind is on the moon
  * Flying up to where the wind blew
  * 
  * 手のひらに溢れてくる
  * 情熱が目を覚ます
  * 彷徨っているだけのThis World
  * １つだけ光る君のPure
  * 錆びたナイフなんかじゃ刺せない
  * I am burning like a fire gone wild
  * 心に矢を放たれた瞬間
  * まとわりつく雑音が弾けた
  * Everything was different from that moment on
  * If I don’t try , I’ll never know
  * 
  * 何故、花は咲くのだろう？
  * 君の声が響くよ
  * 
  * Tell me why？
  * I just shouted to the sky
  * But you are no no no longer here, that’s right？
  * あの日僕ら確かめてた LIFE
  * 儚い夢と　言われたっていいから
  * 傷だらけの今日から救い出すよ
  * 
  * モノクロの世界で君が流してる
  * 涙を今も手探りで探してる
  * 明日に向かう為にあと何を
  * 失えば　光は見えるかな？
  * When I looked up to the moon and the stars
  * その横顔を思い浮かべた
  * 孤独の中に昇る朝日
  * 胸の鼓動まだ消さないように
  * 
  * 何故、夜は来るのだろう？
  * 僕は声を枯らすよ
  * Show me why？
  * I am standing in the night
  * But you are no no longer here that’s right？
  * あの日僕ら抱きしめてたLIFE
  * 君の声が　確かに聞こえるから
  * 傷だらけになっても救い出すよ
  * 
  * Don’t matter if you’re ready
  * I’m gonna find you
  * Though it might sound funny
  * I will do what I’ll do
  * きっと見つけ出すよ
  * 
  * Tell me why？
  * I just shouted to the sky
  * But you are no no no longer here, that’s right？
  * あの日僕ら確かめてた LIFE
  * 儚い夢と　言われたっていいから
  * 傷だらけの今日から救い出すよ

  (https://www.lyrical-nonsense.com/lyrics/rude-alpha/life/)

  ## List

  * Still Life


title: Aaron
content:
  When Jacob went into Egypt, and the Egyptians oppressed them, Israel's fathers cried out to the LORD and the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and made them dwell in this place. (1 Samuel 12:8-9)


title: Anathoth
content:
  A Benjamin town 2-4 miles northeast of Jerusalem. It was one of four in Benjamin allotted to the priests (Joshua 21:17-18).

  (The ESV Study Bible<sup>TM</sup>, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 1369)

  Solomon sent Abiathar to his estate in Anathoth instead of putting him to death. (1 Kings 2:26-27)

  ## Inhabitants

  * Abiathar the priest
  * Abiezer of Anathoth
  * Hilkiah


title: Abiathar
content:
  ## Abiathar the priest

  A priest in King Solomon's court. (1 Kings 4:4) He was deposed by Solomon in favor of Zadok (1 Kings 1:26-27,35) in accordance with Yahweh's denunciation of Eli's family. (1 Samuel 2:27-36)

  (The ESV Study BibleTM, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 1369)

  ## Abiathar son of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, Abiathar the priest

  When Saul ordered the deaths of all the priests for "aiding David's rebellion," Doeg killed almost all the priests and also the people and livestock at Nob, but Abiathar escaped and fled after David. He told David about the slaughter, and David told him he knew it would happen when he saw Doeg. He told Abiathar to stay with him and not be afraid, for he will protect him. (1 Samuel 22)

  Abiathar fled to David to Keilah with an ephod in his hand. David knew Saul was plotting harm against him, so he asked Abiathar for the ephod to be brought to him. He asked if the men of Keilah would surrender him into his hand and whether Saul would come down as his servant had surely heard. The LORD affirmed Saul would come down and that Keilah would surrender him. They fled Keilah for Ziph, Maon, and Engedi. (1 Samuel 23)

  David and his men found Ziklag burned with all its people taken captive. David told Abiathar to bring the ephod, and David inquired, "Shall I pursue after this band? Shall I overtake them?" God affirmed that he would overtake and rescue. Indeed, his men rescued a dying Egyptian who led them to the band, and David killed all of them apart from 400 camel riders and recovered everyone and every single thing and all the flocks and herds the Amalekites had. (1 Samuel 30)

  Abiathar the priest and Joab supported Adonijah when he was exalting himself, saying "I will be king," during King David's old age. (1 Kings 1:7)

  Father of Jonathan (1 Kings 1:41)

  After putting Adonijah to death for asking for Abishag as his wife, Solomon said to Abiathar, "Go to Anathoth, to your estate, for you deserve death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because you shared in all my father's affliction." So Solomon expelled Abiathar from being priest to the LORD, thus fulfilling the word of the LORD that he had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh. (1 Kings 2:26-27)

  King Solomon put Zadok the priest in his place. (1 Kings 2:35)


title: Zadok
content:
  ## Zadok the priest

  * Son: Azariah. (1 Kings 4:2)

  A priest in King Solomon's court. (1 Kings 4:4) Priest Abiathar was deposed by Solomon in favor of him (1 Kings 1:26-27,35) in accordance with Yahweh's denunciation of Eli's family. (1 Samuel 2:27-36) 

  (The ESV Study Bible<sup>TM</sup>, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 1369)

  Zadok the priest did not support Adonijah when he was exalting himself, saying "I will be king," during King David's old age. Neither did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, or David's mighty men. (1 Kings 1:8)

  After Bathsheba and Nathan the prophet told King David about Adonijah's exaltation, he called Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah to himself to instruct them to anoint Solomon as king.  (1 Kings 1:11-48)

  They obeyed. Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the Cherethites, and the Pelethites had Solomon ride on King David's mule on their way to Gihon. Zadok anointed Solomon with a horn of oil. Then they blew the trumpet and said, "Long live King Solomon!" All the people went up after him, playing on pipes, and rejoicing with great joy, "so that the earth was split by their noise." (1 Kings 1:38-40)

  King Solomon put Zadok the priest in Abiathar's place. (1 Kings 2:35)

  ## Zadok the son of Azor

  The son of Azor and the father of Achim. He was in the line of Christ through Joseph. (Matthew 1:14)


title: Benaiah
content:
  ## Benaiah the son of Jehoiada

  One of King David's mighty men (one of the three), and later the commander of King Solomon's army.

  (1 Kings 4:4)

  David's mighty men were divided into the three and the thirty. 

  Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a valiant man of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds. He struck down two ariels of Moab. He also went down and struck down a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen. And he struck down an Egyptian, a handsome man. The Egyptian had a spear in his hand, but Benaiah went down to him with a staff and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian's hand and killed him with his own spear. These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and won a name beside the three mighty men. He was renowned among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David set him over his bodyguard.  (2 Samuel 23:20-23)

  Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did not support Adonijah when he was exalting himself, saying "I will be king," during King David's old age. Neither did Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, or David's mighty men. (1 Kings 1:8)

  Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened cattle by the Serpent's Stone, which is beside En-rogel, and he invited all his brothers, the king's sons, and all the royal officials of Judah, but he did not invite Nathan the prophet or Benaiah or the mighty men or Solomon his brother. (1 Kings 1:9-10)

  After Bathsheba and Nathan the prophet told King David about Adonijah's exaltation, he called Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah to himself to instruct them to anoint Solomon as king.  (1 Kings 1:11-48)

  They obeyed. Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the Cherethites, and the Pelethites had Solomon ride on King David's mule on their way to Gihon. Zadok anointed Solomon with a horn of oil. Then they blew the trumpet and said, "Long live King Solomon!" All the people went up after him, playing on pipes, and rejoicing with great joy, "so that the earth was split by their noise." (1 Kings 1:38-40)

  When Joab heard King Solomon had Adonijah put to death, he fled to the tent of the LORD and caught hold of the horns of the altar. Solomon heard of this and sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, "Go, strike him down." Joab refused to come out, "No I will die here." Solomon said, "Do as he has said, strike him down and bury him, and thus take away from me and from my father's house the guilt for the blood that Joab shed without cause. The LORD will bright back his bloody deeds on his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men more righteous and better than himself, Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah. So shall their blood come back on the head of Joab and on the head of his descendants forever. But for David and for his descendants and for his house and for his throne there shall be peace from the LORD forevermore." Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went and struck him down and put him to death, and buried him in his own house in the wilderness. The king put Benaiah over the army in place of Joab, and the king put Zadok in place of Abiathar. (1 Kings 2:28-25)

  ## Benaiah of Pirathon

  Benaiah of Pirathon is one of the thirty. (2 Samuel 23:30)


title: Ariel
content:
  ## Two Ariels of Moab

  In 2 Samuel 23:20 (ESV), Benaiah the son of Jehoiada's great deeds includes striking down two ariels of Moab. The meaning of "ariel" is unknown. The King James Version translates as "two lionlike men of Moab."

  (2 Samuel 23:20-23)

  The Hebrew word for "lion" is aryeh. The "-el" implies a religious dimension that transcends mere lions. Brian Godawa suggests these are were-lions.

  (https://godawa.com/myth-bible-part-10-lion-men-moab/)


title: Moab
content:
  Tableland home of the Moabites, capital Kir.

  Saul fought all his enemies on every side, including Moab, when he took kingship over Israel. (1 Samuel 14:47)

  David left his father and mother in the king of Moab's care at Mizpeh while he was in the stronghold until the prophet Gad told him to return to Judah. (1 Samuel 22)

  Jeremiah prophesied its destruction, that its god and priests and officials, its cities, its glory, and riches would fall.They are broken like a vessel for which no one cares. Terror, pit, and snare are before them. Yet He will restore their fortunes in the latter days. (Jeremiah 48)

  ## Figures

  * Chemosh

  ## Places

  * Arnon
  * Beth-diblathaim
  * Beth-gamul
  * Beth-meon
  * Bozrah
  * Dibon
  * Heshbon
  * Holon
  * Horonaim
  * Jahaz
  * Jahzah
  * Jazer
  * Kerioth
  * Kir-hareseth
  * Kiriathaim
  * Luhith
  * Mephaath
  * Mizpeh
  * Nebo
  * Nimrim
  * Sea of Jazer
  * Sibmah
  * Zoar


title: Lion
content:
  ## Sancti Patris Nostri Epiphanii, Episcopi Constantiae Cypri, ad Physiologum. Eiusdem in die festo Palmarum sermo. (Physiologus)

  The first property of the lion is that when he walks in the mountains and scents a hunter, he erases his tracks with his tail, so that the hunter cannot follow him back to his den and capture him. The interpretation of this property is that the lion represents Christ, the spiritual lion, who in becoming incarnate covered his spiritual tracks, that is his divinity, so that those who saw him asked "Who is this king of glory?" 

   When the lion sleeps, it keeps its eyes open and watches. The lion sleeping with its eyes open represents Christ on the cross; his body sleeps in death, but his divinity keeps watch at the right hand of God. The second property is that the lion cub is born dead, but is brought to life after three days when the father breathes on its face (some accounts say the father roars over the cub). This represents Christ's three days in the grave, after which God his father revived him. 

  (https://spcoll.library.uvic.ca/Digit/physiologum/animal/lion1.htm, https://spcoll.library.uvic.ca/Digit/physiologum/animal/lion2.htm)

  "The wolf and the lamb shall graze together; the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and dust shall be the serpent's good. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain," says the LORD.

  (Isaiah 65:25)


title: Physiologus
content:
  In Antwerp in 1588, Christopher Plantin printed a book with the imposing title Sancti Patris Nostri
  Epiphanii, Episcopi Constantiae Cypri, ad Physiologum. Eiusdem in die festo Palmarum sermo.  Its Physiologus is a a set of moralized animal stories which were the basis of the medieval bestiary. It's not a natural history; it's a Christian text.

  (https://spcoll.library.uvic.ca/Digit/physiologum/introduction.htm, https://spcoll.library.uvic.ca/Digit/physiologum/commentary/animal.htm)

  ## Topics

  * Lion


title: Plantin
content:
  ## Christopher Plantin

  ### Titles

  * Sancti Patris Nostri
  Epiphanii, Episcopi Constantiae Cypri, ad Physiologum. Eiusdem in die festo Palmarum sermo.  
  * Physiologus 

  (https://spcoll.library.uvic.ca/Digit/physiologum/introduction.htm, https://spcoll.library.uvic.ca/Digit/physiologum/commentary/animal.htm)


title: Isaiah
content:
  For the man, see Prophet Isaiah

  ## Topics

  **Figures**

  * Isaiah

  **Peoples**

  * 

  **Places**

  * 

  **Other**

  * 


title: Judgment
content:
  To adjust our self-esteem, everyone needs to be judged fairly. If we are unhappy with how we are judged, we will work until we are judged favorably. Games are excellent systems for objective judgment, one of their most appealing qualities. 

  (The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses by Jesse Schell, Carnegie Mellon University, 2008. Pages 127-128)

  ## Lens #20: The Lens of Judgment

  To decide if your game is a good judge of the players, ask yourself these questions:

  * What does your game judge about the players?
  * How does it communicate this judgment?
  * Do players feel the judgment is fair?
  * Do they care about the judgment?
  * Does the judgment make them want to improve?

  (The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses by Jesse Schell, Carnegie Mellon University, 2008. Page 128)

  ## Topics

  * Hall of Judgment
  * Lens #20: The Lens of Judgment


title: Hall of Judgment
content:
  King Solomon made the Hall of the Throne where he was to pronounce judgment, even the Hall of Judgment. It was finished with cedar from floor to rafters.

  (1 Kings 7:7)


title: Hall of the Throne
content:
  King Solomon made the Hall of the Throne where he was to pronounce judgment, even the Hall of Judgment. It was finished with cedar from floor to rafters. 

  (1 Kings 7:7)


title: Lens
content:
  A perspective, a way of viewing your design, a small set of questions you should ask yourself about your design, a tool for examining your design. Collect and use a wide variety of them.

  (The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses by Jesse Schell, Carnegie Mellon University, 2008. Page xxvi)

  * Lens #20: The Lens of Judgment


title: Silver
content:
  A quarter of a shekel of silver was the gift Saul's servant happened to have so they could ask Samuel about their journey, a circumstance that introduced Samuel to the first king. (1 Samuel 9:1-24)

  Idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands. They don't speak, nor have breath. Those who trust in them become like them. (Psalm 135:15-18)

  ## List

  * Silver Lady


title: Silver Lady
content:
  ## Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

  The mother-Queen to the elves. She is very old and powerful in the way of magick. She lives in Qintarra and has never been seen by non-elven eyes.

  A delegation of elves, sent from the Silver Lady herself, came not long after Bates built his first steam engine. Technology spread fast and the elves were hit first and hardest. She was hurt the most by the destruction of the Morbihan Forest because she is oldest and old elves have a strong connection with ancient trees.

  (Loghaire Thunder Stone)

  She is the queen, but her daughter Raven manages the day-to-day work of Qintarra. She speaks in riddles because she is immensely powerful in magic and lives more in that world sometimes.

  (Raven)

  She speaks in riddles, but you can ask her about The Living One, M'in Gorad, and the Black Mountain Clan. Raven helps translate.

  She says the mantle of The Living One is ultimately unimportant, and it can be shed. If kept, interesting events will continue around you.

  About M'in Gorad, she saw an eyeless man, in pan, carving a key...a wolf with a raised paw. The official symbol for the city of Caladon is a wolf with one paw raised in the air. Also, a torn curtain...a ringed, broken finger pointing east. She saw a hand that sees, but is blind. A truthful man in a mask. It sounds like the ancient symbol of the Molochean Hand. Blindness can mean deception, that they are being misled. Finally, she saw lost, hiding children. A man who runs from them and drops and leaves. It reminds Raven that the name M'in Gorad bothers her because it is a dark name, a Dark Elf name. The lost children must be dark elves. They are hidden because they have been hidden through magic and isolation from everyone for almost 500 years The man may have been that human researcher Dr. Renford A. Terwilliger who came to the Glimmering Forest to study dark elves. His dropped leaves may have been the focus of the consuming flock and a target to find. The place of water and water may be Tarant, a place of factories and Williger was from there.

  (Silver Lady, Raven)


title: House
content:
  ## Dunmer Great Houses

  * House Dres
  * House Hlaalu
  * House Indoril
  * House Redoran
  * House Telvanni
  * Sixth House - House Dagoth

  ## Figures

  * Dr. Robert House - introduced the first "truth serum"

  ## House of the LORD

  ## List

  * Dollhouse, Doll House
  * Tree House, Treehouse


title: Truth Serum
content:
  A mind-altering drug that makes you incapable of lying used by the CIA, police, and Nazi interrogators during the 20s through 40s.

  They slow the speed at which your body sends messages from your spinal chord to your brain, inhibiting your ability to perform high-functioning tasks like walking a straight line or lying. Research shows you are more likely to tell the truth under the effects of a truth serum but also more likely to make complacent or outright false statements. It also instills a warm, friendly feeling towards your interrogator, prompting you to tell him what he wants to hear, rather than what's true. They lead to too many useless statements, so it's difficult to sift out the truth.

  Truth serums are illegal for use in interrogation. They were ruled admissible in US courts in 1963 as statements were "unconstitutionally coerced" and in violation of the fifth amendment.

  (https://www.businessinsider.com/is-there-such-a-thing-as-truth-serum-2014-10)

  ## List

  * Amobarbital
  * Ethyl Alcohol
  * Oxytocin
  * Pentothal
  * Pitocin
  * Scopolamine
  * Sodium Amytal
  * Sodium Thiopental


title: Mountain
content:
  Also see Mount.

  ## Mountains

  * Meru

  ## Mountain Ranges

  * Himalayas
  * Nila
  * Pamirs
  * Sveta
  * Srngavan

  ## Related

  * Black Mountain clan
  * Mountain Daughter


title: Mountain Daughter
content:
  Ragnar: So, you are the outlander whom Hamal said would look for Asleif.

  Rilkar: Who?

  Ragnar: You don’t even know her name!
  I am sorry, outlander, I have not spoken with your kind for a long time and I’m not feeling so well.
  You see, I was set to marry Asleif, the most beautiful woman ever to grace this world.

  Rilkar: Do you have any idea where she might be?

  Ragnar: She used to come here every day, you know, whenever our camp was set up in the vicinity. 
  She would come to sing here, her voice reflecting on the mountains and falling into the pool like sparkling silver.
  Sometimes I think I can still hear her singing, but when I follow the sound around the pool I just end up here again.

  Rilkar: So… do you have any idea where she might be now?

  Ragnar: We were supposed to meet here, at the tree by the pool. I think if I wait long enough maybe she will show up again.

  Rilkar: But… you don’t actually have any idea where she is right at this moment?

  Ragnar: If I knew I wouldn’t be standing here, would I?


  The pool looks very peaceful. You can also hear faint singing coming from it.
  The sound seems to be coming from the center of the pool.
   
  Apply mud to slippery bark tree, climb to island it’s leaning down over. Use pole on clump of rocks to reach next island. Use plank on flat rocks to make a little bridge to the center of the lake. 


  You can clearly hear the voice coming from the water now. “Rilkar… Rilkar!” 


  Err, yes. Hello?

  Listen to me, Rilkar, listen to what I will say.

  Hello! Who are you! And where for that matter?

  I am all around you. I am the soft singing in the wind. I am the faint rippling of the water. I am the stone of the rocks around you.
  Well, I suppose that answered both questions then.
  I am the voice of Asleif, daughter of Hamal, son of Wulfgard.

  Wait, you’re Asleif? I think I was looking for you! Where are you hiding?

  Asleif is no longer in your world, she dwells in the halls of her ancestors now.

  But I thought you said you were Asleif?

  I am but the voice of her, an echo of the past, reflected on the water. A tiny part of her spirit.

  So what exactly do you want from me?

  I am greatly concerned for the people who were once my tribesmen. You must help me, Rilkar, for their current course will lead to their doom.

  Er, I don’t think they like the idea of me helping them.

  Listen to me, and judge then if you think yourself capable or not.
  My people have, as is their way, isolated themselves from the rest of the world. There is no one for them to turn to in times of need.
  Our tribesmen are the children of the Fremennik of Rellekka. The parting was a bitter affair and the two groups never forgave each other.
  I ask you, Rilkar, to help bring these two people closer together again.

  All right. That sounds like something I can do.

  There is another thing, Rilkar, that I ask of you.

  Yes?

  My father has not moved camp for far too long. There is very little food now for my people. You must find a new supply of food for them, for I fear the worst.

  I’ll get right on it. 
  So let’s see, peace with Rellekka, and a new supply of food.

  Thank you, Rilkar, and may the gods bless you on your journey.

  Rilkar: I spoke to Asleif!

  Ragnar: Really? You found her? Where is she, tell me!

  Rilkar: Well… there’s something you should know.

  Ragnar: Yes?

  Rilkar: Er, she’s sort of… well…
  She’s sort of dead.

  Ragnar: What? Do not say such things! Tell me where you saw her!

  Rilkar: I didn’t actually see her, not as such. But I did talk to her, right there, on that island in the center of the pool.

  Ragnar: That island is bare! There’s no one there! Do not try to deceive me, outlander, she is not dead and you did not talk to her!

  Rilkar: Fine, don’t believe me then.
   
  My daughter was always asking me to do that, and now that she is not here right now, I thought perhaps it was the right thing to do.

  Yes, Rilkar?

  I did what you asked me to! I improved the relations between Rellekka and the mountain camp, and I found a new supply of food!

  Yes, Rilkar, I can sense that this is so.
  …
  My father does not believe that I am dead. In his heart, he knows it to be true, but he cannot accept it.
  You must convince him, Rilkar.. Once you have convinced my father, everyone else in the camp will follow him. Then, perhaps, they can move on again.

  I don’t think I can get him to this little island.

  I must leave that to you. All I know is that I was attacked by some creature or animal while I was sitting by the lake. It dragged me off and I remember nothing else.
  Perhaps this will help you, I cannot provide further assistance.

   
  Rilkar: So what are you doing here, pretending to be a god?

  The Kendal: Ah, the people that live in the mountains here, they are a superstitious lot. They fear few things, but magic and gods they’re scared to death of.
  So I took on the guise of one of their legends. It’s a good way of being left alone.

  Ragnar waited here 14 years to give this necklace.

  She is my love forever.


title: Meru
content:
  At the navel of the inner-continent Ilavrta is the all-gold mount Meru, the king of all the mountains. It is as high as the extent of his dvipa.  It forms the pericarp of the lotus in the form of the earth. It is thirty-two thousand yojanas in extent at the top, and sixteen thousand yojanas at its foot, and its root lies under the earth's surface to the same extent viz. sixteen thousand yojanas. (i.e. it is 84000 yojanas in height from the surface of the earth)

  (Bhagavata Purana, Pg. 712)

  Enclosed by these eight mountain-ranges, the mountain of gold (Meru) shines like (sacrificial) fire surrounded by blades of Kusha grass. (to demarcate its boundaries). 

  Those (who are in know) say that on the summit of Meru, at the very center, is situated Sata-Kumbhi, (the city of gold), the capital of god Brahma. It covers an area of a ten thousand yojanas and is square in shape.

  Surrounding that city (capital of god Brahma), there are eight suburbs (or cities) of the eight guardian deities of the world (such as Indra, Varuna etc.), They are after the model of Sata-Kumbhi, and are build in a style befitting their masters, each city being one fourth in extend of Lord Brahma's capital.

  (Bhagavata Purana Pg. 715-716)

  The Sun along with all the planets circle the mountain.

  ("The Devi Bhagavatam", Book 8, Chapter 15)


title: Grace
content:
  ## Greek Mythology

  Azure-eyed goddess. She and the Graces wove the robes of the goddesses. 

  (Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, 1796. Page 9)


title: Black Mountain
content:
  ## Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

  Black Mountain Clan is in the northernmost region of the Stone Wall Mountains.

  (Thorvald Two Stones)

  It's the clan Bates was obsessed with. Stennar shared the steam engine technology with him, betraying dwarven tradition to not share technology with humans, bringing down judgement from the Wheel Clan and Loghaire upon them. They are now exiled to the Isle of Despair.

  Gudmund Ore Bender finds the punishment too harsh, so he stayed behind to record and share history of that day.

  (Gudmund Ore Bender)

  They actually have never been on the Isle of Despair. Only a single member of the Wheel Clan has been exiled there and for completely unrelated reasons.

  (Thorvald Two Stones)

  A delegation of elves, sent from the Silver Lady herself, came not long after Bates built his first steam engine. Technology spread fast and the elves were hit first and hardest. If the Black Mountain clan was not punished, there would be an Elven-Dwarven war. The Wheel Clan already decided punishment, but the elves refused. They claimed rights as the afflicted and as judges and wanted exile. They wanted to be the vessel of that retribution. Threatening war is out of character for elves, though. Loghaire feared war as cataclysmic for Arcanum, so he sacrificed the Black Mountain clan's honor, against his responsibility. He should have brought the matter to the dwarves or allowed war, so now he has exiled himself. His story is over, but he gives the Living One a letter from the elven delegation that mentions M'in Gorad. He suggests you find Qintarra. Maybe Stillwater has hints to its location.

  (Loghaire Thunder Stone)


title: Arcanum
content:
  Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura is a 2001 role-playing video game, developed by Troika Games, and published by Sierra On-Line for Microsoft Windows.

  ## History

  The Panarii religion has been the favored religion for 1500 years, since the Age of Legends and has been the favored religion for 1500 years. Before, there were many religions and gods, and each race had certain gods that they prayed to.

  There were 12 pagan gods: 8 lesser gods (one for each of the races), three greater gods, and the All-Father. They are categorized as the Noble Lesser Gods, the Neutral Lesser Gods, and the Darker Lesser Gods. Offerings were made to the gods in hopes of getting blessings, and each god demanded a different offering,

  There are still pagan altars and worshipers, like the Order of Halcyon and the cult of Geshtianna. Most are in ruins now, though.

  (Professor Aldous Buxington, The Pagan Gods of Arcanum)

  ## Party Members

  * Virgil
  * Sogg Mead Mug 

  ## Plot

  * MC was riding in the zeppelin IFS Zephyr when it was taken down by ogres operating fighter fliers but emerges unscathed. The dying gnome Preston Radcliffe gives her a ring to return to the boy who will know what needs to be done. He did unspeakable things but had no choice. There's so few left but the work is almost done. He's coming back to destroy everything and everyone. Tell him I escaped.. 
  * Virgil recognizes MC as The Living One
  * Follow Virgil to Elder Joachim in the **Shrouded Hills** to straighten everything out.
  * Left dead bodies of conspirators and a note to Virgil. He recommends you run to **Tarant**. He left a telegram there.
  * Elder Joachim's telegram apologized for not staying to meet Virgil, but he's investigating the assassins. He wants you to go to the Bleeding Rose Inn in **Stillwater** and to speak with the Inn Keeper.
  * Met Magnus, a dwarf investigating his clan. All he has to go by is an old bracelet linked to P. Schuyler & Sons. He'll travel with you once you are strong enough.
  * The employee at P. Schuyler & Sons is difficult and will not talk about the gnome's ring. Magnus said he treated him the same way when asking about his bracelet.
  * There's crypts under P. Schuyler & Sons. The Schuylers explain they use the undead dwarves to dig for jewelry - but the jewelry isn't even good, and they melt it down to remake anyways. They ask you to keep silent in return for information about your ring. They direct you to Gilbert Bates.
  * Gilbert Bates reveals the gnome Preston Radcliffe was actually the Black Mountain dwarf Stennar who shared the steam engine technology with him. He also identifies your assassins as the Molochean Hand, or at least people using their logos.
  * Bates wants you to investigate the Black Mountain clan because they disappeared after he brought steam technology to humans.
  * The **Black Mountain mines** is empty, save Gudmund Ore Bender, who left the history of that day on the Pillar of Truth. They were exiled by the Wheel Clan after the crime of sharing technology.
  * Gilbert Bates is guilty and wants you to investigate their exile in the Isle of Despair. In **Ashbury**, Edward Teach can take you to the **Isle of Despair**.
  * The only dwarf on the Isle of Despair Thorvald Two Stones is from the Wheel Clan from unrelated reasons. He sends you to the **Wheel Clan** to learn what's going on.
  * The Wheel Clan wants you to bring your news to King Thunder Stone.
  * King Randver Thunder Stone wants you to find his father Loghaire in the **Dredge**
  * Loghaire Thunder Stone sends you to **Stillwater** to find **Qintarra**.
  * Mirthe tells you where Qintarra is
  * Raven tests you by having you remove the humans from Falcon's Ache
  * The Silver Lady tells you riddles
  * It seems you need Horror Among the Dark Elves, which, according to a book in the Tarant Library, has a surviving copy with Victor Misk in Caladon.

  ## Religious Terms

  * Alberich
  * Arronax
  * Bolo
  * Geshtianna
  * Gorgoth
  * Halcyon
  * Helion
  * Kaitan
  * Kerlin
  * Makaal
  * Mazzerin
  * Moorindal
  * Nasrudin
  * Panarii
  * Progo
  * Shakar
  * Ter'el
  * Torg
  * Velorien

  ## Races

  * Bedokaan
  * Dwarf
  * Elf
  * Gnome
  * Half-Elf
  * Half-Orc
  * Halfling
  * Human
  * Ogre
  * Orc

  ## Places

  * Ashbury
  * Black Mountain mines
  * Blackroot, Black Root
  * Caladon
  * Cumbria
  * Dernholm
  * Jailer's Hump
  * Isle of Despair
  * Morbihan Forest
  * Morbihan Plains
  * Qintarra
  * Razor's Point
  * Roseborough
  * Serpentspine
  * Shrouded Hills
  * Stillwater
  * Tarant
  * Weeping Maidens

  ## Characters

  * Charles Brehgo

  ## Stats

  * ER - electrical resistance
  * NP - noise penalty


title: Virgil
content:
  ## Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura 

  A human neophyte who barely knows his own religion, Panarii. He is the first to find The Living One after her zeppelin crashes, and he soon saves her from dodgy men with some clever threats in true shoujo fashion. He takes her to his mentor Elder Joachim. He was converted after a hard time that Joachim pulled him out from.

  He feels uncomfortable in Tarant and doesn't like cities. He also has spent his time trying to stay off the Isle of Despair.

  (Virgil)


title: Wolf
content:
  Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits. (Matthew 7:15-16)


title: Lamb
content:
  **The sacrifice of a nursing lamb to stop an attack**

  The people agreed to turn to God, so he had all of Israel gather at Mizpah. He prayed and sacrificed for Israel as the Philistines opportunistically closed in on Mizpah. The people were afraid and told Samuel to not cease crying out to the LORD for them, that he may save them from the Philistines. The LORD thundered with a mighty sound, throwing the Philistines into confusion as Samuel offered a nursing lamb. The Philistines were defeated, chased as far as Beth-car. Then Samuel erected a stone named Ebenezer between Mizpah and Shen, for "Till now the LORD has helped us." There was peace with Philistia. (1 Samuel 7:3-12)

  "The wolf and the lamb shall graze together; the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and dust shall be the serpent's good. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain," says the LORD.

  (Isaiah 65:25)

  ## List

  * Sheep


title: Serpent
content:
  ## Bible

  The serpent tempted Eve. “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” (Genesis 3)

  "The wolf and the lamb shall graze together; the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and dust shall be the serpent's good. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain," says the LORD. (Isaiah 65:25)

  Which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? (Matthew 7:10)

  ## The Elder Scrolls

  The Stars of Tamriel are divided into thirteen constellations. Three are the major constellations, known as the Guardians - the Warrior, the Mage, and the Thief. Each of the Guardians protects its three Charges from the thirteenth constellation, the Serpent.

  The Serpent has no season, for it moves about in the heavens, usually threatening one of the other constellations. It's motions are predictable to a degree. No characteristics are common to all who are born under the sign of the Serpent. Those born under this sign are the most blessed and the most cursed.

  (The Firmament by Ffoulke)

  ## Hinduism

  Ruru is the name of a creature much more cruel than a serpent. There is a realm of hell called Raurava, where murderers are tortured. Rurus in Maharaurava are Kravyadas (carnivorous flesh-eaters) which kill for the sake of flesh those who are given solely to the nourishment of their bodies.

  (Bhagavata Purana Pg. 767)

  ## Paradise Lost

  Milton compares Ophion to the serpent in Paradise Lost. "And fabled how the serpent, whom they called / Ophion, with Eurynome, (the wide-/ Encroaching Eve perhaps,) had first the rule/ of high Olympus, thence by Saturn driven."

  (Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, 1796. Page 10.)

  Milton in next describing Satan's return to Pandemonium, changed to a dragon, finely distinguishes this hellish monster from the snaky tribe out of which it has grown, in these verses from Paradise Lost (10: 519):

  * For now were all transformed
  * Alike, to serpents all, as accessories
  * To his bold riot. Dreadful was the din
  * Of hissing through the hall, thick-swarming now
  * With complicated monsters head and tail,
  * Scorpion, and asp, and imphishaena dire,
  * Cerastes horned, hydrus and ellops drear,
  * And dipsas (not so thick swarmed once the soil
  * Bedropt with blood of gorgon, or the isle
  * Ophiusa); but still greatest he the midst,
  * Now dragon grown, larger than whom the sun
  * Engendered in the Pythian vale on slim,
  * Huge Python; and his power no less he seemed
  * Above the rest still to retain.

  ## Sumerian

  The features of the original Sumerian, of pre-Sumerian, myth of the struggle of Marduk with Tiamat had become considerably modified by that time in Babylonia. Dr. Ward mentions a cylinder on which Bel-Marduk is depicted as chasing and killing the Evil One--an unmistakable serpent. 

  (https://www.sacred-texts.com/etc/ddl/ddl14.htm - Dragons and Dragon Lore, by Ernest Ingersoll, [1928], chapter 12)

  ## List

  * Arhiman
  * Eblis
  * Satan
  * Serpent's Stone


title: Genesis
content:
  Written by Moses. The first 11 chapters were originally orally passed down.

  "Gene" = beginnings, origins.

  (Mr. Johnson's Bible Class, FaithQuest - Student Edition (DP) by Sharon Berry and Ollie Gibbs (2008). Pages 21.)

  ## Outline

  * 1-11 - Creation
  * 12-50 - Patriarchs 

  ## List

  * Beginning
  * Creation
  * Eden
  * Fall
  * Flood, Noah, Ark
  * Dispersion of Nations, Tower of Babel
  * Gap Theory
  * Protoevangelium


title: Dragon
content:
  ## Chinese

  Chinese dragons are beneficent rain-gods of water, so they were identified with nagas; and it was this modified, semi-Hindoo, Manhayana conception of Buddhism, with its tolerance of serpent-divinity, which was carried by wandering missionaries and traders during the later Han period into China and eastward.

  (https://www.sacred-texts.com/etc/ddl/ddl05.htm - Dragons and Dragon Lore, by Ernest Ingersoll, [1928], chapter 3)

  ## Types

  * Banescale
  * Chinese Dragon
  * Coatl
  * Fae
  * Gaoler
  * Guardian
  * Imperial
  * Mirror
  * Naga
  * Nocturne
  * Pearlcatcher
  * Skydancer
  * Snapper
  * Spiral
  * Tundra
  * Wyvern


title: John
content:
  Brother of James, son of Zebedee.

  After calling Simon and Andrew, Jesus called James and John with Zebedee. (Matthew 5:18-22)

  ## List

  * John the Apostle (brother of James)
  * John the Baptist
  * John Uri Lloyd
  * John Mark (son of Mary)
  * John Meusenbach
  * John Milton
  * John Ryland


title: Satan
content:
  The Spirit led Jesus to the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. He tempts Him to turn the stones into bread, to throw himself off a pinnacle and have angels save Him, and to fall down and worship him. When Jesus tells him to begone, he left. (Matthew 5:1-11)


title: Eurynome
content:
  ## Greek Mythology

  A female titan. Ruled over Olympus with Ophion until dethroned by Saturn and Rhea.

  Milton compares her to Eve in Paradise Lost. "And fabled how the serpent, whom they called / Ophion, with Eurynome, (the wide- / Encroaching Eve perhaps,) had first the rule / of high Olympus, thence by Saturn driven."

  (Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, 1796. Page 10.)


title: Ophion
content:
  ## Greek Mythology

  A male titan. Ruled over Olympus with Eurynome until dethroned by Saturn and Rhea.

  Milton compares him to the serpent in Paradise Lost. "And fabled how the serpent, whom they called / Ophion, with Eurynome, (the wide- / Encroaching Eve perhaps,) had first the rule / of high Olympus, thence by Saturn driven."

  (Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, 1796. Page 10.)


title: Olympus
content:
  ## Mount Olympus

  The home of the Greek gods. The ancient Greeks believed it or Delphi to be the center of the flat, circular earth.

  (Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, 1796. Page 7.)


title: Saturn
content:
  ## Greek Mythology

  Cronos

  A Titan who fathered Jupiter by Rhea. He yielded his dominion to Jupiter and received dominion of Olympus with Rhea from Ophion and Eurynome.

  (Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, 1796. Page 10.)

  His reign is said to have been the golden age of innocence and purity. 

  He was also described as a monster who devoured his children. This arises from Cronos (Time) bringing an end to all things which had a beginning - in other words, devouring its own offspring. Jupiter escaped, grew up, espoused Metis (Prudence), who administered a draught to Saturn which caused him to disgorge his children. Jupiter led his brothers to vanquish the Titans and imprison some in Tartarus and punish others. 

  (Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, 1796. Page 11.)


title: Amon
content:
  ## Amon the governor of the city

  Governor of Samaria in the time of Ahab. The prophet Micaiah was put in his and Joash the king's son's custody by order of Ahab. (1 Kings 22:24-28)

  ## Amon of Thebes

  AKA Amun, "The Hidden One." Chief god of ancient Thebes. Amun-Re is merged with Re of Heliopolis and is the "King of the Gods," "Lord of Heaven," and "Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands." He is also entitled Amun-Kamutef, "Amun-the-Bull-of-His-Mother," meaning he is self-created and impregnated his own mother.

  (https://www.memphis.edu/hypostyle/meaning_function/amun-re.php)

  The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, told prophet Jeremiah that he will punish Amon of Thebes and deliver him, Pharaoh, and Egypt into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. (Jeremiah 46:25-26)


title: Babylon
content:
  Identified as Chaldea in the Bible. (https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4213-chaldea)

  Zedekiah's opposition to Babylon eventually led the Babylonians to conquer Jerusalem in the fifth month (July/August) (Jeremiah 39:1-10) of 587 or 586 B.C. The captivity lasted until c.538-535 B.C., when Cyrus allowed the Jews to return to their homeland. (Ezra 1). 

  (The ESV Study Bible<sup>TM</sup>, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 1369)

  Jeremiah prophesied the surprise destruction of Babylon from the north by archers, that they would face what they had done to others and no man shall dwell there. Bel and Merodach are dismayed. The lost sheep of Israel will flee Babylon and return to Zion, to Israel, to feed on Carmel, Bashan, Ephraim, and Gilead after being picked off by lions, by Assyria, and Nebuchadnezzar. The remnant of Israel and Judah will be pardoned of iniquity and sin. (Jeremiah 50)

  ## Figures

  * Bel, Baal, Merodach

  ## Kings

  * Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
  * Evil-Merodach

  ## Places

  * Babylonia
  * Chaldea
  * Leb-kamai
  * Merathaim
  * Pekod


title: City
content:
  "And I, behold, I make you this day a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land. They will fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you, for I am with you, declares the LORD, to deliver you."

  (Jeremiah 1:18-19)


title: Ahab
content:
  The king of Israel, husband of Jezebel, and father of Ahaziah.

  **Ahab's prophets vs Elijah**

  Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, but Obadiah hid a hundred prophets in a cave and fed them. (1 Kings 8:3-4)

  Elijah had Ahab gather to Mount Carmel the 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah eat at Jezebel's table. Elijah told Ahab there is a sound of rain and to prepare his chariot lest the rain stop him. A great rain came and Ahab rode to Jezreel, but the hand of the LORD raced Elijah to the entrance before him. (1 Kings 8:19-46)

  He told Jezebel Elijah had killed all the prophets, she sent a messenger, saying, "So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow." (1 Kings 19:1-2)

  **Ahab wants Naboth's vineyard**

  Ahab wanted Naboth the Jezreelite's vineyard in Jezreel, but the LORD had forbidden it. Jezebel saw his depression and said she would get it for him. She sent royal letters and two worthless men to testify falsely against Naboth and incite a stoning. Immediately, Ahab claimed his vineyard. The LORD sent Elijah the Tishbite to proclaim dogs will lick up his and her blood like they licked up Naboth's. Ahab tore his clothes and humbled himself, so the LORD waited to bring disaster upon his house in his son's days instead. (1 Kings 21:1-29)

  **Ahab's death**

  Ahab died and was brought to Samaria for burial. They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood, and the prostitutes washed themselves in it, according to the word of the LORD that he had spoken. So Ahab slept with his fathers, and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place. (1 Kings 22:37-40)


title: Jezebel
content:
  ## Bible

  **Jezebel's prophets vs Elijah**

  Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, but Obadiah hid a hundred prophets in a cave and fed them. (1 Kings 8:3-4)

  450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah eat at her table. (1 Kings 8:19)

  When Ahab told her Elijah had killed all the prophets, Jezebel sent a messenger, saying, "So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow." (1 Kings 19:1-2)

  **Jezebel secures Naboth's vineyard for Ahab**

  Ahab wanted Naboth the Jezreelite's vineyard in Jezreel, but the LORD had forbidden it. Jezebel saw his depression and said she would get it for him. She sent royal letters and two worthless men to testify falsely against Naboth and incite a stoning. Immediately, Ahab claimed his vineyard. The LORD sent Elijah the Tishbite to proclaim dogs will lick up his and her blood like they licked up Naboth's. (1 Kings 21:1-24)


title: Worthless
content:
  Thus says the LORD: "What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?"

  (Jeremiah 2:5)


title: Ahaziah
content:
  The king of Israel, son of Ahab.

  ## Bible

  So Ahab slept with his fathers, and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.

  (1 Kings 22:37-40)


title: Mount Carmel
content:
  A hill situated on the west coast of Israel near the Mediterranean Sea on a headland by modern Haifa that forms the northwestern end of a range of hills 13 miles long, commonly referred to as the Carmel range. As a notable landmark, it is mentioned in early Egyptian and Mesopotamian texts.

  (The ESV Study Bible<sup>TM</sup>, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 634, 1453)

  Elijah had Ahab gather all Israel, the 450 prophets of Baal, and the 400 prophets of Asherah here for a challenge. Then, Elijah told Ahab he could hear rain. He went up to Mount Carmel to bow then look for seven times before seeing a little cloud. He raced Ahab's chariot to Jezreel. (1 Kings 8:17-46)

  The Shulammite's beloved says her head crowns her like Carmel, and her flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses. (Song of Solomon 7:5)

  A metaphor for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. (Jeremiah 46:18)


title: Shulammite
content:
  The beloved woman in Song of Solomon is called O Shulammite by the 'Others.' (Song of Solomon 6:13) Maybe it's a female form of Solomon or maybe she's from Shulam, synonymous with Shunem (she's called a Sunamite in the Septuagint and Eusebius referred to Shunem as Shulem), modern-day Sulam.

  (https://biblereadingarcheology.com/2016/12/08/where-was-shulam-home-of-the-shulammite/)


title: Carmel
content:
  After Saul disobeyed God's command to destroy Amalek, he set up a monument for himself in Carmel. (1 Samuel 15:12)

  David went to the wilderness of Paran, where his men protected the nearby shearers of Nabal, a rich man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. Nabal angered him, but Abigail subdued him. When Nabal died, he sent for Abigail as a wife. (1 Samuel 25)

  Hezro of Carmel is one of the thirty of David's mighty men. (2 Samuel 23:35)

  Jeremiah prophesied through the destruction of Babylon, the lost sheep of Israel would be restored to his pasture to feed on Carmel, Bashan, Ephraim, and Gilead. (Jeremiah 50:17-20)

  ## People

  * Abigail of Carmel, Nabal's widow
  * Hezro of Carmel

  ## List

  * Mount Carmel


title: Song of Solomon
content:
  A book of the Bible with an ambiguous author. The song is Solomon's, but he may not have penned it.

  According to rabbinical literature, the first few centuries of the Christian era, certain sages disputed on internal evidence, the canonicity of Ezekiel, Proverbs, Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, and Esther.

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Page 51.)

  ## Summary

  * 1 - She confesses her love. She is dark but lovely, keeper of her family's vineyard but not her own. She asks her love where he pastures his flock, and he tells her to follow the tracks of the flock and pasture her young goats beside the shepherds' tents. She is a mare among Pharaoh's chariots, ornamented with jewels, gold, and silver. Her nard gave forth fragrance.Their couch is green, their beams are cedar, and their rafters are pine. 
  * 2 - She is a rose of Sharon, but he calls her a lily among brambles (young women). She calls him an apple tree among the trees (young men) who provides shade and refreshing apples. Do not stir up love until it pleases. Her beloved is like a gazelle or young stag gazing through the window beckoning her to arise and come away for winter is past and rain is over so she can catch the foxes that spoil their vineyards. He grazes among the lilies. She wants him to turn like a gazelle or young stag.
  * 3 - She dreams of searching for him whom her soul loves until she found him and would not let go until she had brought him into her mother's house and chamber where she was conceived. Do not stir up love until it pleases. A vision of Solomon carried by 60 men, perfumed, on a carriage of Lebanese wood, silver posts, a golden back, and a seat of purple. The interior was inlaid with love by the daughters of Jerusalem. Look upon King Solomon, with the crown with which his mother crowned him on his wedding day.
  * 4 - He compliments her dove eyes, goat hair, ewe teeth, scarlet thread lips, lovely mouth, pomegranate cheeks, tower neck, and fawn breasts. He wants to go away to the mountain of myrrh (Song of Solomon 1:13's sachet?). Her love is better than wine, her fragrance better than spice, her lips drip nectar, and honey and milk are under her tongue. She is a garden locked. Awake O north wind and come O south wind to blow upon his garden - then she invites him to eat choicest fruits from his garden.
  * 5 - He enjoys the garden. She slept, but her heart was awake. Then a sound! Her beloved knocked, but she tarried to open and he had turned and gone. Her soul failed her when he spoke. She sought him but was found and beaten by the watchmen. The Others ask what's so special about him, and she answers he is distinguished among ten thousand, that his arms are rods of gold set with jewels, his body polished ivory, legs alabaster columns on bases of gold, and his appearance is like Lebanon, choice as the cedars.
  * 6 - The Others offer to seek out him with her, and she says he has gone down to his garden to gather lilies. I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine. He calls her as beautiful as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners. The sixty queens, eighty concubines, and countless virgins praise her. Before she was aware, her desire set her among the chariots of her kinsman, a prince. The Others call the Shulammite to return, so they may look upon her. But her asks why they should look upon her as upon a dance before two armies?
  * 7 - He observes her beautiful sandaled feet, jewel rounded thighs, mixed wine bowl navel, heap of wheat belly encircled with lilies, twin gazelle fawn breasts, ivory tower neck, pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim eyes, tower of Lebanon nose looking towards Damascus, head crowning like Carmel, flowing locks like purple holding a king captive, palm tree stature with breast clusters, apple breath, and mouth like best wine. She invites him into the fields and villages to see the grape and pomegranate blooms. She will give him her love. The mandrakes give fragrance, and all choice fruits new and old have been laid up for him.
  * 8 - 

  ## Topics

  **Figures**

  * Pharaoh
  * Shulammite
  * King Solomon

  **Peoples**

  * Daughters of Jerusalem
  * Daughters of Zion
  * Shulammite

  **Places**

  * Amana
  * gate of Bath-rabbim
  * Mount Carmel
  * Damascus
  * Engedi
  * Gilead
  * Hermon
  * Heshbon
  * Jerusalem
  * Kedar
  * Lebanon
  * Senir
  * Sharon
  * Tirzah

  **Other**

  * Nard
  * North wind
  * Rose of Sharon
  * South wind
  * Tower of David

  **Verses**

  * Song of Solomon 2:10-14 - My beloved speaks and says to me: Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away, for behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. The fig tree ripens its figs, and the wines are in blossom; they give forth fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away. 
  * Song of Solomon 4:4 - Your neck is like the tower of David, built in rows of stone; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors.
  * Song of Solomon 8:7 - Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.


title: Nard
content:
  While the king was on his couch, my nard gave forth its fragrance. (Song of Solomon 1:12)

  Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates with all choicest fruits, henna with nard, nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all choice spices. (Song of Solomon 4:12-15)


title: Jezreel
content:
  The location of Ahab's palace and Jezebel. (The ESV Study Bible<sup>TM</sup>, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 635)

  The Philistines gathered all their forces at Aphek, by hundreds and thousands, while the Israelites were encamped by the spring in Jezreel. The lords of the Philistines asked why these Hebrews were here, and despite Achish insisting David's blamelessness to their cause, he had to send David back to Philistia early next morning, while the Philistines continued to Jezreel. (1 Samuel 29)

  Abner the son of Ner made Ish-bosheth the son of Saul king over Gilead, the Ashurites, Jezreel, Ephraim, and Benjamin, and all Israel, in Mahanaim. (2 Samuel 2:9)

  Elijah raced Ahab's chariot from Mount Carmel to Jezreel. God's hand was upon him, so he reached the entrance first. (1 Kings 8:41-46) He prophesied that dogs shall eat Jezebel within the walls of Jezreel. (1 Kings 21:20-24)

  ## People

  * Ahinoam of Jezreel
  * Naboth the Jezreelite who had a vineyard in Jezreel, beside the palace of Ahab king of Samaria, and was killed for it. 


title: Baal
content:
  Worshiped by Israel under Ahab and apparently DNC members, evidenced in the email leaks.

  Samuel prayed for Israel as they turned from the Baals and Ashtaroth, directed their heart to the LORD, served only the LORD, and sought deliverance from the Philistines. (1 Samuel 7:3-11)

  Ahab abandoned the commandments of the LORD and followed the Baals. Elijah challenged the 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of Asherah who eat at Jezebel's table. (1 Kings 8:17-19) 

  Jeremiah prophesied he, Bel, Merodach, would be put to shame. (Jeremiah 50:1-2)


title: Depression
content:
  Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer. ~ Dorothy Rowe

  When things go wrong, as they sometimes will; when the road you're trudging seems all uphill; when the funds are low and the debts are high; and you want to smile but you have to sigh. When all is pressing you down a bit--rest if you must, but don't you quit. Success is failure turned inside out; the silver tint on the clouds of doubt; and you can never tell how close you are; it may be near when it seems far. So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit - It's when things go wrong that you must not quit. ~ John Greenleaf Whittier

  Depression steals joy and peace, dulling your senses through a dark filter, leading to despair, discouragement, worry, fear, and hopelessness. You can choose not to be depressed by finding joy in the Lord and living by faith instead of letting the circumstances of life dictate your feelings. Go on the offensive with your thoughts. What are you thankful for? Read scripture on encouragement and speak them over your life. Cast your cares on the loving God who wants to help you live a happy, joyous, fulfilled life. 

  (Keep Calm and Trust God by Jake Provance and Keith Provance, 2014. Pages 18-23)

  ## Verses

  * Psalm 42:11
  * Psalms 40:1-3
  * 1 Peter 4:12-13


title: Keep Calm and Trust God
content:
  A book gifted to me by a lady from my church when Mom died.

  Many of life's battles are spiritual battles. Keeping calm and carrying on is not enough; we must rely on and gain our strength from God, trusting Him totally. In the storm, replace fear with confidence, worry with faith, and anxiety with peace.

  ## Figures

  * Marcus Aurelius
  * Alexander Graham Bell
  * Corrie Ten Boom
  * Francis Chan
  * Francis de Sales
  * Steven Furtick
  * Nelson Mandela
  * Peter Marshall
  * George Mueller
  * Dorothy Rowe
  * John Greenleaf Whittier

  ## Topics

  * Anxiety
  * Worry
  * Fear
  * Depression
  * Pressure
  * Regret
  * Stress

  (Keep Calm and Trust God by Jake Provance and Keith Provance, 2014)


title: Heliopolis
content:
  The obelisks of Heliopolis were sacred pillars in the temples there, about 5 miles northeast of Cairo. The LORD sent Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to break the obelisks.

  (The ESV Study Bible<sup>TM</sup>, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 1448-1449; Jeremiah 42:8-13)

  The sun god Re of Heliopolis.

  (https://www.memphis.edu/hypostyle/meaning_function/amun-re.php)


title: Thebes
content:
  Amon of Thebes was their chief god during the New Kingdom period (~1550-1100 B.C.) but obscure prior to the Middle Kingdom (~2055-1650 B.C.).

  (https://www.memphis.edu/hypostyle/meaning_function/amun-re.php, Jeremiah 46:25-26)


title: Nebuchadnezzar
content:
  The king of Babylon.

  The LORD told Jeremiah to hide large stones in the mortar in the pavement where Nebuchadnezzar's throne would be set before directing him to tell Judah of His mission to send the king the cleanse Egypt.

  (Jeremiah 43:7-13)

  He defeated Egypt. (Jeremiah 46:13)

  He installed Zedekiah king of Judah, but his opposition led to the Babylonian army sieging Jerusalem, pursuit and overtooking of Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and bringing of him to Nebuchadnezzar at Riblah in the land of Hamath to slaughter his sons in front of him, put out his eyes, and was imprisoned in Babylon until death.

  (Jeremiah 52:1-11, The ESV Study Bible<sup>TM</sup>, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 1369)

  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon carried away Jeconiah king of Judah with the Jewish captives, including Mordecai. (Esther 2:5-6)


title: Nabal
content:
  He was a very rich man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He had 3000 sheep and 1000 goats. He was shearing his sheep in Carmel. He was harsh and poorly mannered. 

  * **Tribe**: Calebite 
  * **Wife**: Abigail

  When David's men came to ask for what he had on hand, since it was a feast day and they had treated his shearers well, he treated them with contempt, angering David to bloodshed. 

  He went back to his house and held a feast like of a king, becoming drunk. Abigail returned and said nothing of her outing until morning light, and when she did, his heart died within him and he became as stone. He died 10 days later when the LORD struck him. 

  David thanked the LORD for avenging the insult he received at Nabal's hand. 

  (1 Samuel 25)


title: Maon
content:
  David fled the wilderness of Ziph to the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon. Saul pursued him. David heard and went down to the rock and lived in the wilderness, evading Saul, until Saul nearly had him before a messenger interrupted him with news of a Philistine raid. (1 Samuel 23:24-29)

  David went to the wilderness of Paran, where his men protected the nearby shearers of Nabal, a rich man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. Nabal angered him, but Abigail subdued him. When Nabal died, he sent for Abigail as a wife. (1 Samuel 25)


title: Abigail
content:
  ## Abigail of Carmel

  Wife of Nabal then David. She was discerning and beautiful. 

  * Husband: Nabal, King David
  * Children: Chileab of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel (2 Samuel 3:2-5)

  **She is freed of Nabal and marries David**

  One of her young men informed her that David had sent messengers to greet Nabal, but he railed at them unfairly, for they took nothing and were like a wall for them. Now they will bring harm against Nabal, but no one could get through to him. Abigail took 200 loaves, 2 skins of wine, 5 sheep already prepared, 5 seahs of parched grain, 100 clusters of raisins, and 200 cakes of figs on donkeys. When she met David, she bowed, took the guilt, affirmed his house, and asked him wait for the LORD so he has no bloodguilt. When the LORD deals well with him, remember her. David blessed her, took her gift, and sent her in peace. Abigail returned to Nabal feasting and drunk, so she told him in the morning. His heart died within in, he became as a stone, and 10 days later, he died. David sent for Abigail as a wife, and also Ahinoam of Jezreel. (1 Samuel 25)

  **Abigail flees with David to Achish**

  David feared Saul would kill him, so he took Ahinoam of Jezreel, Abigail, and his 600 men to live with Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath, in Philistia, where Saul would surely no longer pursue him. After living in the royal city, Achish gave David Ziklag to live in. They lived in Philistia for a year and 4 months, raiding the enemies of Israel under the pretense of raiding Israel, and gained Achish's trust. (1 Samuel 27)

  **Abigail is kidnapped from Ziklag**

  While David and his men were serving in the Philistinian army against the Israelites, a band of Amalekites overwhelmed Ziklag, burned it with fire, and took captive everyone small and great, including Abigail of Carmel. (1 Samuel 30)

  **Abigail moves with David to Hebron**

  When David learned of Saul's death, he inquired of the LORD and went to live in the towns of Hebron with his wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, and his men. He was anointed there. (2 Samuel 2)

  As the house of David grows stronger, he has many sons, including Chileab by Abigail. (2 Samuel 3)


title: Chileab
content:
  The second son of King David.

  * Tribe: Judah, Bethlehemite 
  * Birthplace: Hebron
  * Father: King David
  * Mother: Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel
  * Siblings: Amnon of Ahinoam of Jezreel, Chileab of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur, Adonijah the son of Haggith, Shephatiah the son of Abital, and Ithream of Eglah (2 Samuel 3:2-5), Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada, Eliphelet. (2 Samuel 5:13-16)


title: Fig
content:
  ## Bible

  Adam and Eve made loincloths of fig leaves. (Genesis 3:7)

  A dying Egyptian servant to an Amalekite raider betrayed the band's position to David, and he was able to recover his wives and all the people of Ziklag and all the things stolen and more, the herds of the band. The Egyptian was left behind when he fell sick and had not eaten or had water in 3 days or nights, so David's bread, water, piece of cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins revived his spirit. (1 Samuel 30)


title: Cake
content:
  ## Dessert Recipes

  * Angel Food Cake
  * Battenberg Cake
  * Black Forest Cake
  * Boston Cream Pie
  * Bundt Cake
  * Butter Cake
  * Carrot Cake
  * Cheesecake
  * Chiffon Cake
  * Coffee Cake
  * Cookie Cake
  * Devil's Food Cake
  * Fruitcake
  * Funnel Cake
  * German Chocolate Cake
  * Gingerbread
  * Gooey Butter Cake
  * King Cake
  * Ice Cream Cake
  * Lemon Cake
  * Marble Cake
  * Molten Lava Cake, Molten Chocolate Cake
  * Mooncake
  * Pancake
  * Petits Fours
  * Pound Cake
  * Pumpkin Bread
  * Red Bean Cake
  * Red Velvet Cake
  * Sesame Seed Cake
  * Sheet Cake
  * Shortcake
  * Spice Cake
  * Sponge Cake
  * Swiss Roll
  * Teacake
  * Three Chocolates Cake - white chocolate, milk chocolate, black chocolate
  * Tiramisu
  * Tres Leches Cake
  * Wedding Cake


title: Tres Leches Cake
content:
  ## Tres Leches (Milk Cake)

  "This cake is made with three layers: Cake, filling, and topping. There are 4 types of milk in the filling and topping (whole milk, condensed milk, evaporated milk, and heavy cream). This is an excellent cake for milk lovers!" 

  ### Ingredients

  *    1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  *    1 teaspoon baking powder
  *    1/2 cup unsalted butter
  * 1 cup white sugar
  * 5 eggs
  *    1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  *    2 cups whole milk
  * 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
  * 1 (12 fluid ounce) can evaporated milk
  * 1 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream
  * 1 cup white sugar
  * 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

  ### Steps

  *    Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour one 9x13 inch baking pan.
  *    Sift flour and baking powder together and set aside.
  *    Cream butter or margarine and the 1 cup sugar together until fluffy. Add eggs and the 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract; beat well.
  *    Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture 2 tablespoons at a time; mix until well blended. Pour batter into prepared pan.
  *    Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 30 minutes. Pierce cake several times with a fork.
  *    Combine the whole milk, condensed milk, and evaporated milk together. Pour over the top of the cooled cake.
  *    Whip whipping cream, the remaining 1 cup of the sugar, and the remaining 1 teaspoon vanilla together until thick. Spread over the top of cake. Be sure and keep cake refrigerated, enjoy!

  ### Comments

  * DICKSIELEE - March 03, 2003 - I love Tres Leches cake but this is not the best recipe. The eggs need to be separated, and the whites beaten prior to adding them to the batter. I have done it both ways, and despite the extra work, separating the eggs is well worth the effort.
  *     Serena - December 21, 2007 - My recipe is nearly identical - except I follow a slightly different method for making the cake portion - beat the butter first, for a few minutes until it is a light yellow color - then add the sugar and beat on high until it is very pale - add eggs one at a time (beating for 20 seconds between each egg); then add vanilla and beat for one more minute. Add flour mixture a little at a time and mix until batter is smooth (my batter is always a bit thick). For a slightly better rise in the cake add 1/4 tsp baking soda with the baking powder. I like to use 1 cup heavy cream and 1 cup whole milk (essentially half and half) instead of all regular milk... provides a creamier flavor. 

  (https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/7399/tres-leches-milk-cake/)


title: Raisin
content:
  ## Bible

  A dying Egyptian servant to an Amalekite raider betrayed the band's position to David, and he was able to recover his wives and all the people of Ziklag and all the things stolen and more, the herds of the band. The Egyptian was left behind when he fell sick and had not eaten or had water in 3 days or nights, so David's bread, water, piece of cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins revived his spirit. (1 Samuel 30)


title: Donkey
content:
  Kish lost his donkeys and sent Saul and one of the servants to search for them. Saul didn't find the donkeys, but he encountered Samuel, who prepared him for kingship. (1 Samuel 9:1-24)


title: Seah
content:
  A former Hebrew unit of dry volume, about 7.7 L or 7 quarts.

  Abigail took 200 loaves, 2 skins of wine, 5 sheep already prepared, 5 seahs of parched grain, 100 clusters of raisins, and 200 cakes of figs on donkeys to David to convince him to turn from bloodshed against Nabal. (1 Samuel 25)


title: Stone
content:
  Which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? (Matthew 7:10)


title: Gift
content:
  There are two kinds of gifts. 

  The innate gift of a given skill is the minor gift. The skill comes naturally to you, but you don't necessarily enjoy doing it. There are millions of people with minor gifts who never do anything great.

  The love of the work is the major gift. Loving to use a skill is more important than the skill itself. The love shines through and through practice skill is built, even exceeding the minor gift.

  (The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses by Jesse Schell, Carnegie Mellon University, 2008. Page 6)


title: Ahinoam
content:
  ## Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz 

  Wife to King Saul (1 Samuel 14:49-51)

  When Saul revealed his murderous anger to Jonathan, he called him a "son of a perverse, rebellious woman" and said that he chose the son of Jesse to his own shame and to the shame of his mother's nakedness. (1 Samuel 20:30-34)

  ## Ahinoam of Jezreel

  Wife of King David.

  * Husband: King David
  * Children: Amnon of Ahinoam of Jezreel (2 Samuel 3:2-5)

  David took Abigail and Ahinoam of Jezreel as wives, so Saul gave Michal to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim. (1 Samuel 25:39-44)

  **Ahinoam flees with David to Achish**

  David feared Saul would kill him, so he took Ahinoam, Abigail of Carmel, and his 600 men to live with Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath, in Philistia, where Saul would surely no longer pursue him. After living in the royal city, Achish gave David Ziklag to live in. They lived in Philistia for a year and 4 months, raiding the enemies of Israel under the pretense of raiding Israel, and gained Achish's trust. (1 Samuel 27)

  **Ahinoam captured from Ziklag**

  While David and his men were serving in the Philistinian army against the Israelites, a band of Amalekites overwhelmed Ziklag, burned it with fire, and took captive everyone small and great, including Ahinoam of Jezreel. (1 Samuel 30)

  **Ahinoam moves to Hebron with King David**

  When David learned of Saul's death, he inquired of the LORD and went to live in the towns of Hebron with his wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, and his men. He was anointed there. (2 Samuel 2)

  As the house of David grows stronger, he has many sons, including his first son, Amnon, by Ahinoam. (2 Samuel 3)


title: Jonathan
content:
  Despite losing right to the throne to David, he was knit to the soul of David and strengthened his hand in the LORD. 

  * **Meaning**: "given by God." 
  * **Tribe**: Benjamin, clan of the Matrites (1 Samuel 10:20-21)
  * **Father**: Saul
  * **Mother**: Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz
  * **Siblings**: Ishvi, Malchi-shua, Merab, Michal, Abinadab, and Ish-bosheth. (1 Samuel 14:49-51; 1 Samuel 31:2; 2 Samuel 2:8)
  * **Children**: Mephibosheth (2 Samuel 4:4)

  Jonathan trusts in the LORD and strengthens others' faith, to the detriment of his relationship with his father. His first recorded boldness is going into a Philistine camp with only his armor-bearer and ultimately winning that battle, for God can save by a few. He ate of forest honey without knowing of his father's rash vow for his soldiers to fast or be cursed, but when lots revealed his guilt, the people ransomed his life. 

  He met David when he claimed victory over Goliath and loved him immediately. He made a covenant and gave him his robe and equipment. Saul kept nothing from him, so he warned David to flee when he ordered his death. When David returns, Jonathan believes in the repentance of his father, but is eventually convinced otherwise. Saul even degrades him and his mother at a meal. Ultimately, Jonathan understood God was sending David away, though, despite his attempts to esteem David in Saul's presence, and kissed him and wept together and said their good-byes. The Bible only records one more time that they meet - when he comes out to David the refugee in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh to strengthen his hand in the LORD. 

  His father's disobedience leads to his kingdom being taken away and his death by the Philistines. His body was fastened to the wall in Beth-shan and recovered by Jabesh-gilead to be burned and his bones buried under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh. 

  ## Life

  **Jonathan takes initiative in battle**

  While Saul led 2 thousand troops at Michmash and Bethel, he led a thousand in Gibeah. He defeated the Philistine garrison at Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. (1 Samuel 13:2-3)

  When the people were scattering from Gilgal, Jonathan stayed with Saul and 600 other men in a camp at Geba. The day of the battle, no one but Saul and Jonathan had proper weapons. (1 Samuel 13:8-22)

  Without telling Saul who was hiding in Migron, he went with his armor-bearer to the Philistine garrison, for God can save by a few. His armor-bearer obliged him to do all that was in his heart. He declared their sign would be if they call them up to them, which happened, so they went up and killed 20 within half a furrow's length in an acre of land. Then the earth quaked, and the camp panicked. Saul noticed and ordered a count and discovered their absence and soon initiated battle, chasing the Philistines beyond Beth-aven and rallying defectors and Hebrews in hiding. The LORD saved Israel. (1 Samuel 14:1-23)

  **Saul's rash vow threatens Jonathan's life**

  The Israelites came to a forest with honey on the ground, and Jonathan ate from the tip of his staff, brightening his eyes. He was informed Saul had cursed the man who eats, and he replied that Saul troubled the land, denying them the pick-me-up of the honey. The Israelites chased the Philistines to Aijalon, and Saul asked God whether he should pursue further, though God was silent. Saul cast Urim and Thummim to determine guilt, ultimately getting Jonathan to confess to eating honey and offer his life, which Saul accepted. But the people ransomed him. (1 Samuel 14:24-45)

  The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David as he finished speaking to Saul after his victory over Goliath. He made a covenant with David and gave him the robe he was wearing and his armor, sword, bow, and his belt. (1 Samuel 18:1-5)

  **Jonathan defends David's life from Saul**

  Saul told Jonathan and all his servants that they should kill David. Jonathan warned David to be on his guard in the morning and hide in a secret place. As Saul was in the field where David was hiding, he pleaded that David is innocent and has brought good to Saul and the LORD's salvation to Israel by killing Goliath. Saul swore, "As the LORD lives, he shall not be put to death." Jonathan reported this and brought David back to Saul's presence. (1 Samuel 19:1-10)

  **Jonathan's arrows**

  David returned to Jonathan from Naioth and asked what his guilt was that Saul should kill him. Jonathan had heard nothing, but Saul wouldn't grieve his son by telling him. David planned with Jonathan to not come to the table with the king and to hide in the field. If Saul misses him, Jonathan should tell him he went to sacrifice in Bethlehem and gauge his reaction. But David asked if there is sin in him, for Jonathan to kill him himself. Jonathan asked for harm to be brought on him if he doesn't help David, otherwise to love his house forever when the LORD cuts off all David's enemies. On the third day, he planned to shoot 3 arrows to the side of his stone heap hiding place, send a boy after them, and call either to take the arrows or that the arrows are beyond him. David hid himself at new moon, didn't come to the table unnoticed, was noticed by Saul the next day, Jonathan told him of the sacrifice, and Saul was angry. He called Jonathan a shameful son of a perverse woman for choosing David, for he cannot become king as long as David lives. Jonathan asked what David had done to deserve death. Saul hurled his spear at him. Jonathan rose from the table without eating and left. Jonathan left without eating. The next morning, he shot his arrows and told his boy, "Is not the arrow beyond you?" and "Hurry! Be quick! Do not stay!" then sent the boy to town with the weapons. David rose, fell on his face, bowed three times, and they kissed and wept together, having sworn the LORD be between them and their offspring forever. David left and Jonathan went into the city. (1 Samuel 20)

  When Saul was pursing David for harm, and David was fleeing in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh, Jonathan rose and went to him and strengthened his hand in God. He said, "Do not fear, for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you. You shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you. Saul my father also knows this." The two of them made a covenant before the LORD. Jonathan returned home. (1 Samuel 23:15-18)

  Saul also has David swear not to cut off his offspring nor destroy the name of Saul from his father's house when he becomes king. (1 Samuel 24:21)

  Samuel, raised by the medium of En-dor, told Saul that he and his sons shall be with him tomorrow, because he did not carry out His fierce wrath against Amalek. (1 Samuel 28)

  Israel fled before Philistines on Mount Gilboa. Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchi-shua were killed, and Saul and his armor-bearer fell upon their own swords. The next day, the Philistines came to strip the slain and found Saul and his sons dead. They cut off Saul's head, stripped his armor, sent messengers throughout Philistia to carry news to the house of their idols and the people, and put his armor in the temple of Ashtaroth and fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan. The people of Jabesh-gilead heard this, went all night to take the body of Saul and his sons and came to Jabesh to burn them there. Their bones were buried under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted 7 days.

  (1 Samuel 31)

  **David learns of Jonathan's death**

  3 days after David returned to Ziklag, a man with clothes torn and dirt on his head came and fell on the ground and paid homage to David, saying he escaped from the Israel camp. David asked how the battle went, and he said the people fell and Saul and Jonathan died. He asked how this man knew, and by chance, he happened to be there when Saul was dying and delivered the mercy blow himself. He did not speak further of Jonathan, though.

  David and his men mourned and fasted until evening for Saul, Jonathan, and the people of the LORD and the house of Israel. David learned the man was the son of a sojourner, an Amalekite. 

  In the Song of the Bow or the Lament of the Bow Saul David sings, "Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely! / In life and in death they were not divided; they were swifter than eagles; they were stronger than lions." and "Jonathan lies slain on your high places. / I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; / very pleasant have you been to me; / your love to me was extraordinary, / surpassing the love of women. (2 Samuel 1)

  (2 Samuel 1)

  ## Jonathan son of Abiathar

  David's mighty men were divided into the three and the thirty. Jonathan is one of the thirty. (2 Samuel 23:32)

  Jonathan son of Abiathar brought the news of Solomon's anointment to Adonijah at the end of his feast to celebrate setting himself up as king. (1 Kings 1:42-48)

  ## List

  * Jonathan son of Abiathar
  * Jonathan Sanders


title: Jonathan Sanders
content:
  # Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura

  Ryan Sanders's father, the largest land owner in all of Caladon. The Sanders name has had power and influence for generations. He was always a strong, ruthless business man. After a near-death accident, he changed. He wishes to be kind. It's pathetic. He helps the weak, forgives debts, and gives away riches. He even thinks the family history is shameful. 

  (Ryan Sanders)


title: Amnon
content:
  The firstborn son of King David.

  * Tribe: Judah
  * Birthplace: Hebron
  * Father: King David
  * Mother: Ahinoam of Jezreel 
  * Siblings: Amnon of Ahinoam of Jezreel, Chileab of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur, Adonijah the son of Haggith, Shephatiah the son of Abital, and Ithream of Eglah (2 Samuel 3:2-5), Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada, Eliphelet. (2 Samuel 5:13-16)


title: Michal
content:
  The youngest daughter of King Saul.

  * Tribe: Benjamin (1 Samuel 10:20-21)
  * Father: Saul
  * Mother: Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz
  * Siblings: Jonathan, Ishvi, Malchi-shua, Merab, Abinadab, and Ish-bosheth. (1 Samuel 14:49-51; 1 Samuel 31:2; 2 Samuel 2:8)
  * Husband: David, Paltiel the son of Laish, then King David again

  **Michal offered as a bride to David**

  After Merab was given to Adriel the Meholathite, Saul learned of Michal's love for David and offered her as a bride. Saul convinced David through his servants and had him earn her through valor with a hundred Philistine foreskins as a bride-price. David killed 200 instead. They were wed, and Michal loved him. Saul became even more afraid of David and became his enemy continually. (1 Samuel 18:17-30)

  **Michal saves David through deception**

  When Saul sent messengers to David's house in plot of murder, Michal warned David to escape that very night or die. She let him down the window, dressed a teraphim as him in bed, and when Saul sent messengers, she told them he was sick. And when Saul sent messengers to see David in bed to kill him, they discovered the teraphim. Saul asked her why, and she said David had said, "Let me go. Why should I kill you?" (1 Samuel 19:11-17)

  **Michal marries Palti the son of Laish**

  When David marries Abigail and Ahinoam of Jezreel, Saul gives Michal to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim. (1 Samuel 25:39-44)

  **Michal is returned to King David**

  As civil war split up Israel and Judah between the house of Saul and the house of David, Ish-bosheth's commander Abner came to David to bring all Israel to him. David accepted gladly but set a condition that he first bring Michal before seeing his face. David also sent messengers to Ish-bosheth for Michal. Ish-bosheth sent and took her from her husband Paltiel the son of Laish. (2 Samuel 3:1-16)

  Michal watched from the window as David and all the house of Israel brought the ark of the Covenant into the city of David. David was leaping and dancing before the LORD in a linen ephod, and she despised him in her heart. 

  When David returned from his sacrifices and distribution of food to all men and women of Israel so he could bless his household, she came out to meet him, saying, "How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants' female servants, as one of the vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!" And David said to Michal, "It was before the LORD, who chose me above your father and above all his house, to appoint me as prince over Israel, the people of the LORD--and I will make merry before the LORD. I will make myself yet more contemptible than this, and I will be abased in your eyes. But by the female servants of whom you have spoken, by them I shall be held in honor." 

  And Michal had no child to the day of her death.

  (2 Samuel 6)


title: Adriel
content:
  ## Adriel the Meholathite

  Saul offered Merab to David if he would only be valiant and fight the LORD's battles, but David declined on basis of his father's status. At the time when Merab was to be given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite. (1 Samuel 18:17-19)


title: Merab
content:
  The oldest daughter of King Saul.

  * Tribe: Benjamin (1 Samuel 10:20-21)
  * Father: Saul
  * Mother: Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz
  * Siblings: Jonathan, Ishvi, Malchi-shua, Michal, Abinadab, and Ish-bosheth. (1 Samuel 14:49-51; 1 Samuel 31:2; 2 Samuel 2:8)

  When David saw Israel cowering before Goliath, he asked how the man who defeats the uncircumcised Philistine would be rewarded: the king will enrich the man with great riches and give him his daughter and make his father's house free in Israel. (1 Samuel 17:24-27)

  Saul offered her to David if he would only be valiant and fight the LORD's battles, but David declined on basis of his father's status. At the time when Merab was to be given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite. (1 Samuel 18:17-19)


title: Paltiel
content:
  Also called Palti.

  When David marries Abigail and Ahinoam of Jezreel, Saul gives Michal to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim. (1 Samuel 25:39-44)

  As civil war split up Israel and Judah between the house of Saul and the house of David, Ish-bosheth's commander Abner came to David to bring all Israel to him. David accepted gladly but set a condition that he first bring Michal before seeing his face. David also sent messengers to Ish-bosheth for Michal. Ish-bosheth sent and took her from her husband Paltiel the son of Laish. (2 Samuel 3:1-16)


title: Achish
content:
  ## Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath

  **Achish allows the mad David to live with him**

  When David fled from Saul, he got the bread of the Presence and Goliath's sword from Ahimelech in Nob and went to Achish the king of Gath. His servants recognized him as the one who struck down his ten thousands, so David was afraid and pretended to be mad, making marks on doors and letting his spittle run down his beard. The king fell for the act. (1 Samuel 21)

  So, does he act mad and spit on himself for the full year and 4 months, and Achish thinks he's just great and keeps promoting him in that state?? Or does he awkwardly admit he lied but he is totally telling the truth now - that he hates and attacks Israel, and it is totally not another act? 

  **Achish gives David Ziklag**

  David and his 600 men came to Achish and lived with him at Gath. David asked if he could have his own place, and Achish gave him Ziklag. David stayed in Philistia for a year and 4 months, making raids and taking the livestock and clothing and returning to Achish. When he asked, David said he was raiding the Negeb of Judah, the Negeb of the Jerahmeelites, or the Negeb of the Kenites. Achish trusted David, thinking he has made himself an utter stench to his people Israel and will always be his servant. (1 Samuel 27:2-12)

  **Achish sends David to Ziklag instead of allowing him in the battle against Israel**

  The Philistines gathered their forces for war against Israel. Achish told David, "Understand that you and your men are to go out with me in the army." David said, "Very well, you shall know what your servant can do." And Achish said to David, "Very well, I will make you my bodyguard for life." The Philistines encamped at Shunem, while all of Israel encamped at Gilboa. (1 Samuel 28:1-4)

  The Philistines gathered all their forces at Aphek, by hundreds and thousands, while the Israelites were encamped by the spring in Jezreel. The lords of the Philistines asked why these Hebrews were here. 
  Achish told the commanders David has been with them for days and years without fault. The Philistines insisted "ten thousands" David could become a threat to them in battle, so despite Achish viewing him as blameless as an angel of God, he had to send David back to Philistia early next morning, while the Philistines continued to Jezreel. (1 Samuel 29)

  ## Achish, the son of Maacah, King of Gath

  (1 Kings 2:39)


title: Gath
content:
  **The Ark of the Covenant is sent to Gath**

  The Philistines captured the ark of the covenant and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod, setting it in the house of Dagon next to Dagon. It made Dagon bow, and it cut off his hands and head, and inflicted tumors on the people, so it was sent to Gath next, where it spread the tumors. It was sent to Ekron next. (1 Samuel 5)

  **Goliath slain**

  After David slayed Goliath, the army of the living God chased and plundered the Philistines from Shaaraim as far as Gath and Ekron. (1 Samuel 17:50-54)

  **David flees to Gath**

  When David fled from Saul, he got the bread of the Presence and Goliath's sword from Ahimelech in Nob and went to Achish the king of Gath. (1 Samuel 21)

  Fearing Saul, David and his 600 men came to Achish and lived with him at Gath, for Saul would surely not pursue him to Philistia. David asked if he could have his own place, and Achish gave him Ziklag. David stayed in Philistia for a year and 4 months, and Achish trusted him. (1 Samuel 27:2-12)

  ## List

  * Goliath of Gath
  * Maacah, King of Gath and father of Achish
  * Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath


title: Goliath
content:
  ## Goliath of Gath

  Six cubits and a span tall with a helmet of bronze, a coat of mail that weighs five thousand shekels of bronze, bronze leg armor, and a bronze javelin with a shaft like a weaver's beam and a spearhead weighing six hundred shekels of iron. (1 Samuel 17:4-7)

  **Goliath challenges the LORD's army**

  Emerged as a champion between the Philistines and the Israelites (both on mountains with a valley between them in the area around Socoh, Azekah, Ephes-dammim, and the Valley of Elah). He challenged the army of the living God, saying, "Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me. If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us. I defy the ranks of Israel this day. Give me a man, that we may fight together." (1 Samuel 17:1-11) He challenged Israel for 40 days. (1 Samuel 17:16)

  **David challenges Goliath**

  David, a young, handsome boy, came out to challenge him with a staff, so he asked him, "Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks? Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field." David told him the LORD saves not with sword and spear. As he arose to fight David, David slung a stone that sank into his forehead upon impact, killing him. David took the Philistine's sword and cut off his head to deliver to Saul. (1 Samuel 17:41-58)

  **David receives Goliath's sword as provisions while fleeing Saul**

  Goliath's sword was kept at Nob. (1 Samuel 21:1,9)

  When David came to Nob and took the bread of the Presence, he also asked Ahimelech the priest for a spear or sword, and he was offered the sword of Goliath the Philistine, wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. (1 Samuel 21:1-9) Doeg the Edomite witnessed this and reported Ahimelech's provision of the sword to David to Saul, ultimately resulting in the slaughter of almost all the priests and those in Nob. (1 Samuel 22)


title: Ahimelech
content:
  ## Ahimelech the Priest

  **Ahimelech provides for David while he flees**

  He is the priest at Nob. David came alone and unarmed. Ahimelech met him trembling, asking him why he's alone. David responded that the king charged him with a secret matter and requested five loaves of bread. The priest had no bread on hand, except for the holy bread, so he gave him that. David also asked for a spear or sword, because he was unarmed and in a hurry. He gave him Goliath's sword. Then David fled that day. (1 Samuel 21:1-10)

  **Saul finds out and has him executed**

  Doeg the Edomite was there also, and he reported this activity to Saul, who summoned Ahimelech and all his father's house. Saul asked why he conspired against him, but he replied that he inquired of God for David all the time and knew nothing of the rebellion. Saul ordered the slaughter of the priests because they knowingly aided the rebellion. No one but Doeg would obey, and he struck down 85 priests, and he killed the men, women, children, and livestock of Nob. (1 Samuel 22)

  ## Ahimelech the Hittite

  **David asks Ahimelech to scout out Saul's army**

  David saw Saul and his army were camped nearby on the hill of Hachilah when he was hiding in the wilderness of Ziph. David asked Ahimelech the Hittite and Joab's brother Abishai the son of Zeruiah to go into the camp of Saul, and Abishai agreed to go with him. (1 Samuel 26:6)


title: Abishai
content:
  ## Abishai the son of Zeruiah

  * Father: Buried in a tomb in Bethlehem (2 Samuel 2:32)
  * Mother: Zeruiah
  * Siblings: Joab, Asahel. (2 Samuel 2:18)

  **David asks Ahimelech to scout out Saul's army**

  David saw Saul and his army were camped nearby on the hill of Hachilah when he was hiding in the wilderness of Ziph. David asked Ahimelech the Hittite and Joab's brother Abishai the son of Zeruiah to go into the camp of Saul, and Abishai agreed to go with him. (1 Samuel 26:6)

  **Battle of Gibeon**

  Abishai was at Gibeon under Joab his brother in the name of David to fight the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, led by Abner the son of Ner. When Joab killed Asahel, Joab and Abishai pursued Abner until the sun started going down. The people of Benjamin gathered behind Abner to make a stand on the top of a hill. Abner convinced Joab to cease battle, so they took up Asahel and buried him in the tomb of his father in Bethlehem. They returned to Hebron in the morning, having lost 20 men vs. Ish-bosheth's 360. (2 Samuel 2)

  David saw Saul and his army were camped nearby on the hill of Hachilah when he was hiding in the wilderness of Ziph. David asked Ahimelech the Hittite and Joab's brother Abishai the son of Zeruiah to go into the camp of Saul, and Abishai agreed to go with him. They went into the camp at night and saw Saul sleeping with Abner the son of Ner and the army of 3000 around him, but the LORD had sent a deep sleep so no one noticed. Abishai saw the LORD had given Saul into their hands and said he could kill him in one hit. David told him guilt would be upon anyone who strikes the LORD's anointed, but regardless, the LORD would strike him or he would die in battle someday. Instead, they took the spear that was stuck in the ground near Saul's head and the jar of water.  (1 Samuel 26)

  David's mighty men were divided into the three and the thirty. Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was the chief of the thirty. And he wielded his spear against three hundred men and killed them and won a name beside the three. He was the most renowned of the thirty and became their commander, but he did not attain to the three. 

  (2 Samuel 23:18-19)

  Joab and Abishai killed Abner because he had put their brother Asahel to death in the battle at Gibeon. (2 Samuel 3:30)

  ## Planescape: Torment

  Tall, black, reptilian fiends with bat wings. They can only be hurt by magic. (Xanthia)

  ### List

  * Aethelgrin
  * Grosuk
  * Tegar'in


title: Fiend
content:
  ## Planescape: Torment

  The baatezu and the tanar'ri are the two kinds of fiends and exist in opposition to each other, representing law and chaos respectively. The baatezu hold the tanar'ri responsible for the Blood War.

  (Aethelgrin and Tegar'in the Thrice Damned)


title: Shekel
content:
  A quarter of a shekel of silver was the gift Saul's servant happened to have so they could ask Samuel about their journey, a circumstance that introduced Samuel to the first king. (1 Samuel 9:1-24)

  The Philistines charged Saul's Hebrews to sharpen their farming equipment, but refused to give them blacksmiths, before the battle of Michmash: a "pim" of a shekel for plowshares and mattocks, 1/3 for sharpening axes and setting the goads. (1 Samuel 13:19-22)


title: Weave
content:
  Related to fashion, fabric, and textile. Weaving is usually done with two sets of yarn, the vertical warp and the horizontal weft, on a loom. The way in which the threads are interlaced is called the weave. 

  * Basket
  * Brocade
  * Damask
  * Dobby
  * Double-weave
  * Jacquard
  * Ikat
  * Leno
  * Ribbed
  * Satin
  * Pile
  * Pique
  * Plain
  * Twill

  (Fabrics A to Z: The Essential Guide to Choosing and Using Fabrics for Sewing, Dana Willard, page 10-11)


title: Socoh
content:
  The Philistines gathered here and encamped between here and Azekah in Ephes-dammim during the David & Goliath battle. (1 Samuel 17:1-11)


title: Azekah
content:
  The Philistines encamped between Socoh and Azekah in Ephes-dammim during the David & Goliath battle. (1 Samuel 17:1-11)


title: Elah
content:
  The Israelites gathered and encamped in the Valley of Elah during the David & Goliath battle. (1 Samuel 17:1-11)


title: Bread of the Presence
content:
  Bread of the Presence, Holy Bread

  The bread of the Presence is removed from before the LORD to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away.

  When David fled Saul, he came to Ahimelech the priest in Nob, asking for bread. They had no bread, so he gave him the bread of the Presence. (1 Samuel 21:1-6)


title: Edom
content:
  Descendants of Esau who lived south of the Dead Sea toward the Gulf of Aqaba. Bozrah was their capital.

  (The ESV Study Bible<sup>TM</sup>, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 1460)

  Saul fought all his enemies on every side, including Edom, when he took kingship over Israel. (1 Samuel 14:47)

  Jeremiah prophesied its destruction, that it would be more thorough than thieves. The fatherless and widows will be preserved, but all will drink the cup of destruction. It will become a horror like Sodom and Gomorrah. People will flee like from a lion from the Jordan jungle, and the LORD will appoint new shepherds. (Jeremiah 49:7-22)

  ## Figures

  * Doeg the Edomite
  * Esau

  ## Places

  * Bozrah
  * Teman


title: Nob
content:
  David fled from Saul here and asked for bread and a sword from Ahimelech the priest. He received the bread of the Presence and Goliath's sword. (1 Samuel 21) Doeg the Edomite was there also, and he reported this activity to Saul who ultimately summoned all priests before him ordered their slaughter because they must have known about the rebellion. No one but Doeg would obey, and he killed the men, women, children, and livestock of Nob. (1 Samuel 22)


title: Hittite
content:
  ## People

  Uriah the Hittite is one of the thirty of David's mighty men. 

  (2 Samuel 23:39)

  ## Places

  Kadesh in the land of the Hittites.

  (2 Samuel 24:6)


title: Aethelgrin
content:
  ## Planescape: Torment

  Aethelgrin and Tegar'in the Thrice Damned are abishai on leave from current assignments in Baator. They knew the Nameless One hundreds of years ago and are disappointed he doesn't remember.

  As fiends, they are on the side of the baatezu, not the tanar'ri.

  (Aethelgrin and Tegar'in the Thrice Damned)


title: Grosuk
content:
  ## Planescape: Torment

  An Abishai standing near the portal to the Siege Tower in the Sigil Lower Ward, unable to get inside.

  Sebastion sends you to kill him.

  (Sebastion)

  At reference to Sebastion, Grosuk expects you to have information from him about how to enter the Siege Tower.  You have to either kill him or allow him to kill Sebastion now.

  (Grosuk)


title: Shaaraim
content:
  Goliath was defeated by David, and they were chased and plundered from Shaaraim to Gath and Ekron. (1 Samuel 17:50-54)


title: Ebenezer
content:
  Israel encamped at Ebenezer and the Philistines encamped at Aphek for battle, and Israel was defeated, losing 4000 men. So they brought the ark of the covenant to the camp with Hophni and Phinehas. They shouted, scaring then steeling the Philistines, and lost greatly, losing 30,000 men. (1 Samuel 4)

  Samuel erected the stone Ebenezer between Mizpah and Shen after Philistia's attack on Mizpah during his prayer and sacrifice for Israel to turn away from the Ashtaroth and Baals and to God only. Israel's cities were restored, and they had peace with Philistia. (1 Samuel 7)


title: Ark of the Covenant
content:
  The ark of God, which is called by the name of the LORD of hosts who sits enthroned on the cherubim. (2 Samuel 6:2) He has lived in a tent since He brought his people up from Egypt to the day of David and never asked any of the judges who shepherd His people for a house. He also did not ask David for a house of cedar. (2 Samuel 7:4-8) 

  **The Ark is taken by the Philistines**

  Hophni and Phinehas accompanied the ark of the covenant to reenter battle with the Philistines after a substantial loss near Ebenezer and Aphek, killing 4000 Israelites. The Philistines won again anyway, capturing the ark of the covenant and killing both Hophni and Phinehas. Ichabod was born upon the news, bearing the name "the glory has departed from Israel." (1 Samuel 4)

  The Philistines brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod, setting it in the house of Dagon next to Dagon. The next day, Dagon had fallen face downward before the ark. The same thing happened the next day, but both his hands and head were cut off. The people of Ashdod faced tumors, so they sent it to Gath, spreading tumors there. Ekron would not allow it, so their diviners suggested they return it with a guilt offering of five golden tumors (one for each major city - Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron) and five golden mice (actually more, for all the cities and villages). It had stayed in Philistia for seven months. (1 Samuel 5-6)

  **The Ark is returned to Ekron**

  They sent it on a new cart with two milk cows who never had a yoke. Their calves were shut up at home, and the cows went straight to the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh. The Levites there set the golden figures on the great stone that was there and used the cart to make a burnt offering of the cows. The five lords of the Philistines watched and returned to Ekron. (1 Samuel 5-6)

  **The Ark rests at Kiriath-jearim**

  God struck 70 men for looking upon the ark, so they sent it to Kiriath-jearim, to the house of Abinadab, consecrating his son Eleazar over it. (1 Samuel 6:19-7:2)

  **The Ark is brought to the house of Obed-edom**

  David gathered all the chosen men of Israel, 30,000, to bring the ark of God from Baale-judah out of Abinadab's house to Jerusalem. Abinadab's sons brought it on a new cart, Ahio in the front, and Uzzah driving. David and all the house of Israel were making merry before the LORD with songs, lyres, harps, tambourines, castanets, and cymbals. When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, the oxen stumbled and Uzzah put his hand to the ark and held it, so God struck him down for his error. David was angry, and the place is called Perez-uzzah even still in the days of 2 Samuel. David asked, "How can the ark of the LORD come to me?" So he took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite for three months. (2 Samuel 6)

  **The Ark is brought to Jerusalem**

  When David heard, "The LORD has blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God," David brought it from Obed-edom's house to the city of David. After the ark moved six steps, David sacrificed an ox and a fattened animal and danced before the LORD with all his might in his linen ephod, and all the house of Israel was shouting with the sound of the horn.

  Michal watched from her window and despised David. David had the ark set in a tent he had pitched for it and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings then blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hoses and distributed all men and women of Israel a cake of bread, a portion of meat, a cake of raisins, and each departed to his house.

  (2 Samuel 6)

  **The LORD will build David a house instead of David building His ark a house**

  During a time of peace, David told Nathan the prophet of his intentions, that he lived in a house of cedar while the ark dwelt in a tent. The word of the LORD came to Nathan, explaining that He has not asked for a house since He brought up His people from Egypt, but He will build a house for David and establish his kingdom through his offspring. (2 Samuel 7)

  **The Ark is forgotten**

  And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. And when you have multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, declares the LORD, they shall no more say, "The ark of the covenant of the LORD." It shall not come to mind or be remembered or missed; it shall not be made again. (Jeremiah 3:15-16)


title: Ashdod
content:
  The Philistines captured the ark of the covenant and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod, setting it in the house of Dagon next to Dagon. It made Dagon bow, and it cut off his hands and head, and inflicted tumors on the people, so it was sent to Gath next. (1 Samuel 5)


title: Setting
content:
  ## Every town should have...

  **Australian town**

  * General store
  * Gasoline pumps
  * ATM
  * Post office
  * Restaurant
  * Hotel

  **mack's little burgh**

  * School (K-12)
  * Cemetery
  * Worship center
  * Art gallery
  * Hardware store
  * Lawyer's office
  * Deli/convenience store
  * Laundromat
  * Oil/excavation/construction business
  * Post office
  * Town hall
  * Bank
  * Library
  * Professional offices
  * Volunteer fire dept. & rescue squad
  * Fairground
  * Dump
  * Road maintenance/municipal garage
  * small outbuildings business
  * Gas station

  **Auntbeast's town of less than 100**

  * post office
  * convenience store/gas station/deli
  * water treatment plant
  * 4 churches
  * hunt camp

  **dwc1970's town - population 776**

  * Paint/glass store
  * Bank
  * Fire station
  * Liquor store
  * Meat distributor
  * Hardware store
  * Two corner gas stations
  * Furniture store
  * Restaurant
  * Barber shop
  * Drug store (the store my mom and dad owned)
  * Library/City Hall
  * Restaurant
  * Post office
  * Hotel (which had been abandoned but now serves as offices)
  * Tavern
  * Small supermarket
  * The "junk store" as my sister and I called it
  * Feed store
  * Town hall/grange
  * Gas station

  (https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=382305)


title: Dagon
content:
  The ark of the covenant was captured by the Philistines and set up beside Dagon in the house of Dagon in Ashdod. The next morning, Dagon was fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the LORD. He was put back in his place, but he fell again the next morning with his head and both hands lying cut off on the threshold. Only the trunk was left. This is why the priests of Dagon and all who enter his house do not tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod. (1 Samuel 5:1-5)


title: Ekron
content:
  **The Ark of the Covenant is sent to Ekron**

  The Philistines captured the ark of the covenant and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod, setting it in the house of Dagon next to Dagon. It made Dagon bow, and it cut off his hands and head, and inflicted tumors on the people, so it was sent to Gath next, where it spread the tumors. It was sent to Ekron next. They were fearful of it, so they consulted diviners and followed their advice on how to send it back to the field of Joshua at Beth-shemesh. (1 Samuel 5-6)

  **Goliath is slain**

  After David slayed Goliath, the army of the living God chased and plundered the Philistines from Shaaraim as far as Gath and Ekron. (1 Samuel 17:50-54)


title: Beth-shemesh
content:
  The Philistines feared the ark of the covenant they had captured, so at the advice of their diviners, they sent it on a new cart with two milk cows who never had a yoke to the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh. The Levites there set the golden figures on the great stone that was there and used the cart to make a burnt offering of the cows. 70 men were struck for looking upon it, so it was sent to Kiriath-jearim next. (1 Samuel 5-6)


title: Kiriath-jearim
content:
  Later called Baale-judah. (The ESV Study Bible<sup>TM</sup>, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 552)

  God struck 70 men for looking upon the ark of the covenant, so the Israelites at the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh sent it to Kiriath-jearim, to the house of Abinadab, consecrating his son Eleazar over it. (1 Samuel 6:19-7:2)


title: Eleazar
content:
  ## Eleazar of Abinadab

  When the ark of the covenant came to Kiriath-jearim to the house of Abinadab, his son Eleazar was consecrated to have charge over it. (1 Samuel 6:19-7:2)

  ## Eleazar of Dodo

  One of the three of David's mighty men whose chief was Josheb-basshebeth. Eleazar was the son of Dodo, son of Ahohi. He was with David when they defied the Philistines who were gathered there for battle, and the men of Israel withdrew. He rose and struck down the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clung to the sword. And the LORD brought about a great victory that day, and the men returned after him only to strip the slain. 

  (2 Samuel 23:8-10)

  ## Eleazar the son of Eliud

  The son of Eliud and the father of Matthan. He was in the line of Christ through Joseph. (Matthew 1:15)


title: Gold
content:
  ## Bible

  The magi followed the star to Jesus and fell down and worshiped Him, offering Him gifts, gold, frankincense, and myrrh. (Matthew 2:11)

  ## Hinduism

  Those (who are in know) say that on the summit of Meru, at the very centre, is situated Sata-Kumbhi, (the city of gold), the capital of god Brahma. (Bhagavata Purana Pg. 715-716)

  Meru is an all-gold mountain. (Bhagavata Purana, Pg. 712)


title: Josheb-basshebeth
content:
  The chief of the three of David's mighty men, a Tahchemonite. He wielded his spear against eight hundred whom he killed at one time. "The three" were himself, Eleazar, and Shammah.

  (2 Samuel 23:8)


title: Lentil
content:
  ## Bible

  The Philistines gathered together at Lehi, where there was a plot of ground full of lentils, and the men fled from the Philistines. But Shammah took his stand in the midst of the plot and defended it and struct down the Philistines and the LORD worked a great victory. 

  (2 Samuel 23:11-12)


title: Dodo
content:
  ## Bible

  Eleazar was the son of Dodo, son of Ahohi.

  (2 Samuel 23:9)

  Elhanan was the son of Dodo of Bethlehem.

  (2 Samuel 23:24)


title: Elhanan
content:
  David's mighty men were divided into the three and the thirty. Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem is one of the thirty.

  (2 Samuel 23:24)


title: Eliud
content:
  The son of Achim and the father of Eleazar. He was in the line of Christ through Joseph. (Matthew 1:15)


title: Ziklag
content:
  A town in the Negeb on the southernmost boundary of Judea. Its location is debated, but it's associated with Tell esh-Sharia AKA Tel Sera, Tel Sera', Tell esh-Shari'a, Tell esh-Shari'ah (15 miles southeast of Gaza) or Tell el-Khuweilfeh AKA Tell Halif (10 miles northeast of Beersheba), Asluj a heap of ruins south of Beersheba, and Khirbet Zuheilikah, ruins found on three hills half a mile apart, some seventeen miles north-west of Beersheba.

  (https://www.gotquestions.org/Ziklag-in-the-Bible.html, https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionary/ziklag/, https://www.bibleplaces.com/ziklag/)

  **Ziklag is given to David**

  When Saul reigned as king, it was under Philistine rule. When David fled to Philistia and lived with Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath, David asked, "If I have found favor in your eyes, let a place be given me in one of the country towns, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?" So that day Achish gave him Ziklag, which belonged to the kings of Judah ever since. (1 Samuel 27:1-7)

  David made the town his base of operations for military exploits against the Geshurites, Girzites, and Amalekites, but he reported his raids back to Achish as against the Negeb of Judah, Jerahmeelites, and Kenites. (1 Samuel 27:8-12)

  **Ziklag burned but its people and possessions restored**

  When David and his men were sent away from Achish's army against Israel, they returned to Ziklag three days later and found it burned with fire. All the people were taken captive without being killed. (1 Samuel 29:9-11; 30:1-3) David and 400 men pursued and defeated the band, apart from 400 camel riders, and recovered everyone and everything, plus extra - their enemies' flocks and the spoils from the Philistines. David and his men returned to Ziklag. (1 Samuel 30:16-26)

  3 days after David returned to Ziklag, a man with clothes torn and dirt on his head came and fell on the ground and paid homage to David, saying he escaped from the Israel camp. David asked how the battle went, and he said the people fell and Saul and Jonathan died. He asked how this man knew, and by chance, he happened to be on Mount Gilboa when he saw Saul leaning on his spear with the chariots and horsemen pursuing closely. Saul called to him and asked who he was. Learning he was an Amalekite, he asked him to kill him. He complied, knowing Saul was close to death. He took Saul's crown and armlet to David.

  David and his men mourned and fasted until evening for Saul, Jonathan, and the people of the LORD and the house of Israel. David learned he was the son of a sojourner, an Amalekite. He asked how he did not fear to destroy the LORD's anointed then executed him for his own mouth testified against him.

  (2 Samuel 1)


title: Negeb
content:
  The Negev is spelled Negeb in the Bible, and the King James Version translates it as "the south." 

  Although no specific geographical boundaries define the Negev in the Bible, the region extends between Beersheba and Kadesh Barnea from north to south, and from near the Mediterranean Sea to the Arabah Valley from west to east, an expanse of about 70 miles wide. In Bible times, the territory resembled an hourglass or figure eight turned on its side. On all but the west side, highlands and mountains border the Negev, but to the west it stretches to within a few miles of the Mediterranean coast.

  Today, the Negev is the largest region in the modern state of Israel and includes more territory than it did in ancient times. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the total area of the Negev Desert covers about 4,700 square miles, “occupying almost half of Palestine west of the Jordan River and about 60 percent of Israeli territory under the 1949—67 boundaries.” Rather than a figure eight, current Negev is shaped like an inverted triangle.

  (https://www.gotquestions.org/Negev-in-the-Bible.html)

  After fleeing from Saul to Philistia with Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath, David made Ziklag his base of operations for military exploits against the Geshurites, Girzites, and Amalekites as far as Shur, to the land of Egypt. He reported his raids back to Achish as against the Negeb of Judah, Jerahmeelites, and Kenites and gained Achish's trust. (1 Samuel 27)

  A band of Amalekites made a raid against the Negeb and against Ziklag. They had overcome Ziklag and burned it with fire and taken captive all the people, including Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail. An Egyptian servant of the Amalekites was left to die and revealed to David the band had raided against the Negeb of the Cherethites and against that which belongs to Judah and against the Negeb of Caleb, and they burned Ziklag with fire. (1 Samuel 30)


title: Tell
content:
  ## List

  * Tell el-Khuweilfeh AKA Tell Halif
  * Tell esh-Sharia AKA Tel Sera, Tel Sera', Tell esh-Shari'a, Tell esh-Shari'ah
  * Tell Mardikh


title: Fell
content:
  ## Planescape: Torment

  A dabus who runs a tattoo parlor. He knows the Nameless One but is not permitted to tell his story because he cannot change the nature of man. (Fell) No good will come of being around *Fell*. He's a dabus who's not a dabus. He angered the Lady of Pain, walks on the ground, and the time is close when the Lady's gaze will fall on him. Talking to him terrifies Annah. (Annah)


title: Beersheba
content:
  When Samuel was old, he appointed his sons Abijah and Joel as judges at Beersheba, but they are ungodly and take bribes. The elders wanted a king to judge them instead, so the LORD had his warn them what a king would take from them but ultimately give into their demands. (1 Samuel 8)

  Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow." Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. (1 Kings 19:1-3)


title: Division
content:
  * When dividing a huge number (over 100) by a tiny one, the result will be massive.
  * When dividing a tiny number (between zero and 0.01) by a tiny one, there is no pattern to the result.
  * Dividing by zero results in a quotient that isn't defined

  (18.01.1x)


title: Stonewall
content:
  ## Stonewall Jackson

  General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson fought boldly and with great success from Bull Run to his death from a mistaken shot from a Confederate sharpshooter at the battle of Chancellorsville. 

  (https://www.historynet.com/confederate-generals)


title: Maacah
content:
  ## Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur

  As the house of David grows stronger, he has many sons, including Absalom by Maacah. (2 Samuel 3)

  ## Others

  Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai of Maacah is one of the thirty of David's mighty men. 

  (2 Samuel 23:34)

  The King of Gath and the father of Achish.

  (1 Kings 2:39)


title: Eliphelet
content:
  ## Eliphelet of David

  The seventeenth(?) son of King David.

  * Tribe: Judah
  * Birthplace: Jerusalem
  * Father: King David
  * Mother: 
  * Siblings: Amnon of Ahinoam of Jezreel, Chileab of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur, Adonijah the son of Haggith, Shephatiah the son of Abital, and Ithream of Eglah (2 Samuel 3:2-5), Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada, Eliphelet. (2 Samuel 5:13-16)

  ## Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai of Maacah

  David's mighty men were divided into the three and the thirty. Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai of Maacah is one of the thirty.

  (2 Samuel 23:34)


title: Absalom
content:
  The third son of King David.

  * Tribe: Judah, Bethlehemite 
  * Birthplace: Hebron
  * Father: King David
  * Mother: Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur
  * Siblings: Amnon of Ahinoam of Jezreel, Chileab of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur, Adonijah the son of Haggith, Shephatiah the son of Abital, and Ithream of Eglah. (2 Samuel 3:2-5), Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada, Eliphelet. (2 Samuel 5:13-16)

  David's final instructions to Solomon includes, "...deal loyally with the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, for with such loyalty they met me when I fled from Absalom your brother."

  (1 Kings 2:7)


title: Philistia
content:
  Israel encamped at Ebenezer and the Philistines encamped at Aphek for battle, and Israel was defeated, losing 4000 men. So they brought the ark of the covenant to the camp with Hophni and Phinehas. They shouted, scaring then steeling the Philistines, and lost greatly, losing 30,000 men. (1 Samuel 4)

  The Philistines gathered all their forces at Aphek, by hundreds and thousands, while the Israelites were encamped by the spring in Jezreel. The lords of the Philistines asked why these Hebrews were here, and despite Achish insisting David's blamelessness to their cause, he had to send David back to Philistia early next morning, while the Philistines continued to Jezreel. (1 Samuel 29)


title: Michmash
content:
  Saul and two thousand men camped in Michmash and the hill country of Bethel while Jonathan defeated the Philistine garrison at Geba. The Israelites moved to Gilgal, while as many Philistines as there is sand on the shore encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven. (1 Samuel 13:2-17)


title: Bethel
content:
  Samuel judged in a circuit between Bethel, Gilgal, Mizpah, and Ramah. (1 Samuel 7:15-17)

  Saul and two thousand men camped in Michmash and the hill country of Bethel while Jonathan defeated the Philistine garrison at Geba. The Israelites moved to Gilgal, while as many Philistines as there is sand on the shore encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven. (1 Samuel 13:2-17)

  David recovered the people and things of Ziklag from the band of Amalekite raiders and additional spoils. When he returned to Ziklag, he sent part of the spoil to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, "Here is a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of the LORD." It was for those in Bethel, Ramoth of the Negeb, Jattir, Aroer, Siphmoth, Eshtemoa, Racal, the cities of the Jerahmeelites and Kenites, in Hormah, Borashan, Athach, Hebron, for all the places where David and his men had roamed. (1 Samuel 30)


title: Geba
content:
  Jonathan led a thousand troops at a camp in Gibeah before defeating a Philistine garrison at Geba. (1 Samuel 13:2-3)

  When the Philistines learned David was king, they came out, and David went down to the stronghold. They spread out in the Valley of Rephaim, so David inquired of the LORD whether he should go up and win, and he defeated them at Baal-perazim, the name taken from David's words that "The LORD has burst through my enemies before me like a bursting flood" and carried away their idols. Then, again, they came out in the Valley of Rephaim, and the LORD had David defeat them from the rear and come against them opposite the balsam trees. When he hears the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, rouse himself, for the LORD has gone out before David's army to strike down the army of the Philistines. David obeyed struck them down from Geba to Gezer.

  (2 Samuel 5)


title: Gibeah
content:
  AKA Gibeah of Saul (1 Samuel 11:4)

  Samuel gave the newly anointed Saul 3 signs, one being that he will enter Gibeath-elohim, where there is a garrison of the Philistines, and immediately meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them, prophesying. Then the Spirit of the LORD will rush upon him, and he will prophesy with them and be turned into another man. God will be with him. (1 Samuel 10:1-7)

  When they came to Gibeah, he prophesied with the group of prophets and received the Spirit of the LORD. (1 Samuel 10:8-11)

  Saul returned home here after being announced as the king, along with men of valor whose hearts God had touched. (1 Samuel 10:17-27)

  Jonathan led a thousand troops at a camp here before defeating a Philistine garrison at Geba. (1 Samuel 13:2-3)

  After Saul took the burnt offering and peace offerings into his own hands, the people went from Gilgal to Gibeah to meet the army. (1 Samuel 13:8-15)

  A while after Saul disobeyed the LORD's command to kill all the Amalekites, they parted to never see each other again until the day of Saul's death - Saul to Gibeah, and Samuel to Ramah. (1 Samuel 15)

  When David had fled and was discovered in the forest of Hereth, Saul criticized his men for betraying him under the tamarisk tree on the height of Gibeah, spear in hand. (1 Samuel 22:6-19)

  Saul was at Gibeah when the Ziphites asked him to come down, that they would surrender David from the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, into his hands. (1 Samuel 23:19-24)

  Saul was at Gibeah when the Ziphites told him David was hiding on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the east of Jeshimon. So of course Saul pursued David until time to return home. (1 Samuel 26)

  ## People

  * Saul son of Kish
  * Ribai of Gibeah of the people of Benjamin is the father of Ittai. (2 Samuel 23:29)

  ## List

  * Migron, the pomegranate cave at Migron


title: Gilgal
content:
  Samuel judged in a circuit between Bethel, Gilgal, Mizpah, and Ramah. (1 Samuel 7:15-17)

  Saul gave the newly anointed Saul 3 signs then urged him to meet him at Gilgal to offer burnt offerings and peace offerings. He shall wait seven days until Samuel comes to him and shows him what he shall do. (1 Samuel 10:1-8)

  Samuel brought everyone down to Gilgal after Saul's victory over the Ammonites to make Saul king before the LORD, with peace offerings and rejoicing. (1 Samuel 11:12-15)

  Gilgal was the site of the battle where Saul's men were scattering and Samuel was late, so he performed the burnt offering and peace offerings himself. (1 Samuel 13:8-15)

  Despite God's orders to destroy Amalek and Amalek's livestock, the people kept the best livestock for a sacrifice at Gilgal. Saul captured Agag alive. Saul brought him to Gilgal. Samuel came to Saul, criticized him, then asked for Agag. Agag came to him cheerfully, saying, "Surely the bitterness of death is past." But Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women." Then Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD in Gilgal. (1 Samuel 15)


title: Horsemen
content:
  ## Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

  Revealed by the unsealing of the first four of the seven seals.

  Conquest, War, Famine, Death


title: Ophrah
content:
  While Saul, Jonathan, and 600 men armed with farm tools encamped in Geba, the Philistines encamped in Michmash and sent out three raiding parties: one to Oprah, to the land of Shual; one toward Beth-horon; and one toward the border that looks down on the Valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness. (1 Samuel 13:15-22)


title: Threshing Floor
content:
  Threshing floors were usually on a high place so that the wind could blow the chaff away. 

  (The ESV Study Bible<sup>TM</sup>, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 584)

  When the prophet Gad advised David to return to Judah, he heard the Philistines were fighting against Keilah and were robbing the threshing floors. David and his men went to Keilah and saved the inhabitants of Keilah. (1 Samuel 23:1-5)

  ## Araunah the Jebusite's threshing floor 

  It's located on the top of the hill to the north of the city of David, about 450 yards from it. It's the eventual site of the temple. 

  (The ESV Study Bible<sup>TM</sup>, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 584)

  Gad told David to raise an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. Araunah offered the threshing floor, the oxen, the wood from threshing sledges and yokes of the oxen for free, but David insisted on paying 50 shekels of silver. "I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God that cost me nothing." David built the altar there, offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and the LORD responded and averted the plague from the land.

  (2 Samuel 24:16,18-24)


title: Gad
content:
  ## Land of Gad

  The Philistine army was like sand on the seashore at Michmash, so the men of Israel hid, while others crossed the fords of the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul remained at Gilgal. (1 Samuel 13:5-7)

  ## Prophet Gad

  David remained in the stronghold at the cave of Adullam with his company of 400 men until the prophet Gad said to him, "Do not remain in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah." (1 Samuel 22:1-5)

  The prophet Gad was David's seer. (2 Samuel 24:12)

  He offered God's choice of three years of famine, three months of pursuit by foes, or three days' pestilence to David as punishment for taking the census in 2 Samuel 24:1-9. David chose pestilence to fall into the hand of the LORD, for his mercy is great, and not the hand of man. (2 Samuel 24:10-14)

  As part of repentance, Gad told David to raise an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. The LORD responded when he did and averted the plague from Israel. (2 Samuel 24:18-25) 


title: Araunah
content:
  Araunah the Jebusite's threshing floor is the site of David's conversation with the angel of the LORD while David's people were suffering three days of pestilence (2 Sam 24:13-15) as punishment for his sin of taking the census (2 Sam 24:1-9). (At least, I think. It's confusing.)

  Gad told David to raise an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. Araunah offered the threshing floor, the oxen, the wood from threshing sledges and yokes of the oxen for free, but David insisted on paying 50 shekels of silver. "I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God that cost me nothing." David built the altar there, offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and the LORD responded and averted the plague from the land.

  (2 Samuel 24:16,18-24)


title: Jebusite
content:
  **King David takes the stronghold of Zion**

  After David was anointed king over all Israel, King David and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusite inhabitants of the land who said to David, "You will not come in here, but the blind and the lame will ward you off"--thinking, "David cannot come in here." David said, "Whoever would strike the Jebusites, let him get up the water shaft to attack 'the lame and the blind,' who are hated by David's soul," and defeated them. Therefore it is said, "The blind and the lame shall not come into the house." David lived in the stronghold and called it the city of David. And David built the city all around from the Millo inward. And David became greater and greater for the LORD, the God of hosts, was with him. (2 Samuel 5:1-10)

  Araunah the Jebusite's threshing floor is the site of David's conversation with the angel of the LORD while David's people were suffering three days of pestilence (2 Sam 24:13-15) as punishment for his sin of taking the census (2 Sam 24:1-9).

  (2 Samuel 24:16,18-24)


title: Engedi
content:
  An oasis of abundant water on the dry and desolate western bank of the Dead Sea. 

  (The ESV Study Bible<sup>TM</sup>, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 1217)

  David went up from the Rock of Escape and lived in the strongholds of Engedi. (1 Samuel 23:28-29) When Saul returned from following the Philistines, he was told David is in the wilderness of Engedi. Saul relieved himself in a cave at the Wildgoats' Rocks by sheepfolds where David and his men were hiding, giving David an opportunity to cut off his robe corner, be convicted for this violence against the Lord's anointed, and inform Saul he had spared his life and to amend their relationship. (1 Samuel 24)

  The lover of the Song of Songs's shepherdess is a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of Engredi. (Song of Solomon 1:14)


title: Wilderness
content:
  John the Baptist preached repentance in the wilderness of Judea and baptized in the Jordan River before the coming of Jesus. He wore a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt. He ate locusts and wild honey. (Matthew 3:1-6)

  Isaiah prophesied him. "A voice cries: "In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our God." (Isaiah 40:3, Matthew 3:3) 


title: John the Baptist
content:
  The prophet who preached repentance in the wilderness of Judea and baptized in the Jordan River before the coming of Jesus. He wore a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt. He ate locusts and wild honey. (Matthew 3:1-6)

  Isaiah prophesied him. "A voice cries: "In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our God." (Isaiah 40:3, Matthew 3:3) 

  He baptizes with water for repentance, but Jesus will baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in hid hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather His wheat into the barn, but the chaff will burn with unquenchable fire. (Matthew 3:7-12)

  Jesus came from Galilee to be baptized in the Jordan, insisting that John should baptize Him. When it happened, Jesus went up from the water, and the heavens opened to Him. He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him. A voice from heaven said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased." (Matthew 3:13-17)

  When John the Baptist was arrested, Jesus withdrew to Galilee and from then on preached to repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. (Matthew 5:12-17)


title: Galilee
content:
  After Herod's death, an angel appeared in a dream to tell Joseph to return to Israel. He feared Archelaus, so by dream warning, they settled in Nazareth in Galilee. (Matthew 2:7-23)

  When John the Baptist was arrested, Jesus withdrew to Galilee and from then on preached to repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. He called fishermen from the Sea of Galilee to follow Him - Simon (who is called Peter), Andrew, James the son of Zebedee, John, and their father. He taught all over Galilee and healed the sick and possessed in Syria. Great crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapolis and from Jerusalem and Judea and from beyond the Jordan. (Matthew 5:12-25)


title: Archelaus
content:
  King of Judea. Herod's son. 

  After Herod's death, an angel appeared in a dream to tell Joseph to return to Israel. He feared Archelaus, so by dream warning, they settled in Nazareth in Galilee. (Matthew 2:7-23)


title: Simon
content:
  ## Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura 

  A technologically advanced city. (Charles Dunston)

  It had a king, but he was slow to update the city's technology. He and his heirs died mysteriously and power transferred to the Gnomish Merchants Guild. 

  (Librarian)

  The finest place to stay is the Bridesdale Inn. University park is the must-see area, since it houses the city hall, zoological society, and the university. Also, you can ride the locomotive. To travel through Tarant, use the steamrail stations - eight stations that connect subterranean tunnels. 

  (Mr. Langley)

  The merchant ship Bright Star fell victim to pirates while leaving Tarant. The cargo was emptied and crew and bodies were missing. The merchant shipping magnates held an emergency meeting of the Industrial Council to propose a fast, ironclad warship with the latest steam technology and heavy armaments, used to patrol the shipping lanes. The locals fear taxes will be raised to pay for the ship. A local, Three Tooth McCoy claims the pirates may be Stringy Pete's ghost.

  Also, Donn Throgg, a labor agitator, is possibly organizing orc and half-orc anarchists to riot in town.

  (The Tarantian)

  ### People

  * Professor Aldous Buxington
  * Benjamin Gershwin
  * Cassandra Pettibone
  * Cedric Appleby
  * Charles Dunston
  * Delores Beston
  * Edward Willoughsby - Chairman of the Industrial Council of Tarant. (The Tarantian)
  * Evelyn Garringsburg
  * Frederick T. Fitzgerald
  * General Store Clerk
  * J.M, Morat
  * James Kingsford
  * Joseph
  * Junk Dealer
  * Laura
  * Lorham
  * Madam Lil
  * Magnus
  * Matthew Jameson
  * Polgram - Butlet to the Garringsburgs (Evelyn Garringsburg)
  * Poone
  * Mrs. Regina Halster
  * Ronald Langley
  * Simon Plough
  * Tailor
  * Thom Grak
  * Three Tooth McCoy - local fisherman (The Tarantian)
  * Dr. Tristan Fenwick
  * Madam Toussaude
  * Wise Woman and her pet Scratch

  ### Places

  * Barach's Magerium
  * Bates Engine Factory
  * Bate's Estate
  * The Bridesdale Inn
  * Castleton's General Store
  * City Hall, Dept of Water, Hall of Records
  * Delores Beston, Seer of the Unnatural
  * Grimson Way
  * H.T. Parnell's
  *  Library of Tarant
  * Madam Lil's
  * P. Schuyler & Sons
  * Panarii Temple
  * Poone's Flophouse
  * Stanton Importers
  * The Tarantian Water and Power Plant
  * Thurston's Fashion Palace
  * Madam Toussaude's House of Secrets
  * University Court Library of Tarant
  * Vermillion Station
  * The Wellington Gentlemen's Club
  * Xe'rad's Magick Armoury
  * Zeramin's House of Darke Magick
  * The Zoological Society

  ### Roads

  * Desaille Terrace
  * Devonshire Way
  * Dollins Turn
  * East End Avenue
  * Kensington Broadway
  * Lion's Head Circle
  * Low Dervish Row
  * Lungsten Road
  * Mulligan Bone Alley
  * Pickwick Alley
  * Polton Cross
  * Quilton Bend
  * Rue de Avellone
  * Ten Hands Alley
  * Torry Road
  * Vermillion Road
  * Westrel South


title: Peter
content:
  ## List

  * Peter Christen Asbjornsen
  * Simon (who is called Peter)

  ## Simon (who is called Peter)

  Jesus called Simon and his brother Andrew as they were casting a net into the Sea of Galilee, telling them to follow Him and become fishers of men. They followed immediately. (Matthew 5:18-20)


title: Andrew
content:
  Jesus called Simon and his brother Andrew as they were casting a net into the Sea of Galilee, telling them to follow Him and become fishers of men. They followed immediately. (Matthew 5:18-20)

  ## List

  * Apostle Andrew


title: James
content:
  ## James the son of Zebedee

  Brother of John, son of Zebedee.

  After calling Simon and Andrew, Jesus called James and John with Zebedee. (Matthew 5:18-22)

  ## List

  * James the son of Zebedee


title: Zebedee
content:
  Father of James and John.

  After calling Simon and Andrew, Jesus called James and John with Zebedee. (Matthew 5:18-22)


title: Nathan
content:
  ## Nathan the Prophet

  A prophet who holds David accountable.

  * **Offspring**: Azariah and Zabud (1 Kings 4:5)

  **Nathan delivers the Davidic Covenant to David**

  Israel had rest from his surrounding enemies. David told Nathan the prophet, "See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent." Nathan told him, "Go, do all that is in your heart, for the LORD is with you."

  That same night, the LORD told Nathan: He has lived in a tent since Egypt and never asked for a house. He took David from the pasture, from following sheep, to be prince over Israel, and the LORD had been with him wherever he went and had cut off all his enemies. He will give David a great name like the great ones of the earth. And He will appoint a place for his people Israel so they may dwell and be disturbed no more. The LORD will make David a house. When he dies, He will establish the throne of his offspring forever. "I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men, but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you."

  In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.

  (2 Samuel 7)

  **Nathan anoints Solomon**

  During King David's old age, Nathan and other dissenters weren't invited to Adonijah's sacrifice at Serpent's Stone. Nathan told Bathsheba that Adonijah the son of Haggith secretly became king, then to save her and Solomon's lives told her to ask King David why Adonijah was king instead of Solomon. Nathan would follow and affirm. Under David, Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah, the Cherethites, and the Pelethites anointed Solomon as king. (1 Kings 1:8-49)

  ## Nathan of David

  The ninth(?) son of King David.

  * Tribe: Judah
  * Birthplace: Jerusalem
  * Father: King David
  * Mother: 
  * Siblings: Amnon of Ahinoam of Jezreel, Chileab of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur, Adonijah the son of Haggith, Shephatiah the son of Abital, and Ithream of Eglah (2 Samuel 3:2-5), Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada, Eliphelet. (2 Samuel 5:13-16)

  ## Nathan of Zobah

  Nathan of Zobah is the father of Igal.

  (2 Samuel 23:36)


title: Ryland
content:
  John Ryland was an English Baptist minister and religious writer. (1753-1825)

  ## John Ryland, Betty Ryland

  When John Ryland’s wife Betty lay adying, she was in great distress of mind, though she had been for many years a Christian. Her husband said to her in his quaint but wise way, “Well, Betty, what ails you?” “Oh, John, I am dying, and I have no hope, John!” “But, my dear, where are you going then?” “I am going to hell!” was the answer. “Well,” said he, covering up his deep anguish with his usual humour, and meaning to strike a blow that would be sure to hit the nail on the head and put her doubts to speedy flight, “what do you intend doing when you get there, Betty?” The good woman could give no answer, and Mr. Ryland continued, “Do you think you will pray when you get there?” “Oh, John,” said she, “I should pray anywhere; I cannot help praying!” “Well, then,” said he, “they will say, ‘Here is Betty Ryland praying here; turn her out; we won’t have anybody praying here; turn her out!’” This strange way of putting it brought light to her soul, and she saw at once the absurdity of the very suspicion of a soul really seeking Christ, and yet being cast away for ever from his presence. 

  (Spurgeon's Sermons on Prayer by Charles H. Spurgeon (2007). Page 27., https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/the-ravens-cry/#flipbook/)


title: Meusenbach
content:
  In the 1840s, Germany's economy was failing, and, inspired by Gottfried Duden's idyllic and adventurous picture books of America, 21 nobles devised a plan to move massive numbers of Germans to Texas. They promised comfortable travel and jobs, but high travel costs, nasty weather, and disease deterred their efforts. In order to receive land in Texas, the Germans agreed to settle the homeland of the Comanche. The Germans developed great rapport with the Comanche and struck a deal beneficial to both in the only time in American history that a private group forged a lasting treaty with a Plains Indian tribe. The Comanche were fascinated with German leader John Meusenbach's flame-red beard, nicknaming him "The Red Sun." The Germans hoped to form their own nation of Adelsverein, an ethnic enclave within the interior of Texas.

  New Braunfels was the first Texas city created for German immigration.

  (Lost States: True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania, and Other States That Never Made It by Michael J. Trinklein, 2010, Page 32-33)


title: Jordan
content:
  ## Jordan River

  The Philistine army was like sand on the seashore at Michmash, so the men of Israel hid, while others crossed the fords of the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul remained at Gilgal. (1 Samuel 13:5-7)

  The men of Israel on the other side of the valley and beyond the Jordan abandoned their cities when they learned Saul had died and the army was fleeing, and Philistines moved into them. (1 Samuel 30)

  John the Baptist baptized all the region in the Jordan River. Jesus came from Galilee to be baptized, too. When He was, He went up from the water, the heavens were opened to Him, He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove to come to rest on Him, and a voice from heaven said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased." (Matthew 3)


title: River
content:
  ## List

  * Arnon
  * River Euphrates
  * Jordan River
  * Mississippi River
  * Nile River
  * River Ocean
  * River Oceanus
  * Oshun River
  * River Styx
  * Tennessee River


title: River Ocean
content:
  Not to be confused with River Oceanus

  Around the earth flowed the River Ocean, and all seas and rivers received their waters from it.

  (Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, 1796. Page 7.)


title: Angel
content:
  Achish saw David as blameless as an angel of God towards the Philistines, but still sent him away from his forces during the battle against Israel. (1 Samuel 29)

  **Elijah**

  An angel woke Elijah under a broom tree and baked him a cake and gave him a jar of water. Then woke him again and had him eat and drink again, so he was strong enough to travel to Horeb, the mount of God. (1 Kings 19: 4-8)

  An angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, telling to to take Mary as his wife and to name her son Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins. (Matthew 1:18-23)

  An angel of the Lord removed Peter's chains when he was sleeping between two soldiers and Herod was to bring him out. The angel had him get dressed and follow him out, past guards and a closed iron gate that opened by itself. Once on the street, the angel disappeared. He thought it was a vision, but he then realized it was real. (Acts 12:6-17)

  Herod was struck down by an angel of the Lord struck him down because he did not give God the glory. (Acts 12:20-23)

  For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;...then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. (2 Peter 2:4,9-10)

  ## List

  * Seven Angels with Seven Plagues.


title: Nazareth
content:
  After Herod's death, an angel appeared in a dream to tell Joseph to return to Israel. He feared Archelaus, so by dream warning, they settled in Nazareth in Galilee. (Matthew 2:7-23)

  He withdrew into Galilee when John the Baptist was arrested. Leaving Nazareth, he lived in Capernaum by the sea in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali. He called Simon, Andrew, James, John, and Zebedee from the Sea of Galilee to be fishers of men. (Matthew 15:12-17)

  What was spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled: "He shall be called a Nazarene." ...But there is no OT prophecy about that. First page Google results/Bible footnotes say "branch" and Nazarene are both NZR words and that Nazarenes are scorned by everyone, much like “But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by everyone, despised by the people. All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads” (Psalm 22:6–7). Who knows?


title: Girzite
content:
  After fleeing from Saul to Philistia with Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath, David made Ziklag his base of operations for military exploits against the Geshurites, Girzites, and Amalekites. He reported his raids back to Achish as against the Negeb of Judah, Jerahmeelites, and Kenites and gained Achish's trust. (1 Samuel 27)


title: Jerahmeelite
content:
  After fleeing from Saul to Philistia with Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath, David made Ziklag his base of operations for military exploits against the Geshurites, Girzites, and Amalekites as far as Shur, to the land of Egypt. He reported his raids back to Achish as against the Negeb of Judah, Jerahmeelites, and Kenites and gained Achish's trust. (1 Samuel 27)

  David recovered the people and things of Ziklag from the band of Amalekite raiders and additional spoils. When he returned to Ziklag, he sent part of the spoil to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, "Here is a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of the LORD." It was for those in Bethel, Ramoth of the Negeb, Jattir, Aroer, Siphmoth, Eshtemoa, Racal, the cities of the Jerahmeelites and Kenites, in Hormah, Borashan, Athach, Hebron, for all the places where David and his men had roamed. (1 Samuel 30)


title: Kenite
content:
  Samuel told Saul the LORD wanted him to destroy Amalek and all their livestock for how they treated Israel when they came out of Egypt. He summoned his forces to Telaim and, after warning the Kenites to flee after their kindness shown to Israel as they came out of Egypt, Saul and two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand men of Judah defeated the Amalekites from Havilah as far as Shur. (1 Samuel 15)

  After fleeing from Saul to Philistia with Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath, David made Ziklag his base of operations for military exploits against the Geshurites, Girzites, and Amalekites as far as Shur, to the land of Egypt. He reported his raids back to Achish as against the Negeb of Judah, Jerahmeelites, and Kenites and gained Achish's trust. (1 Samuel 27)

  David recovered the people and things of Ziklag from the band of Amalekite raiders and additional spoils. When he returned to Ziklag, he sent part of the spoil to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, "Here is a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of the LORD." It was for those in Bethel, Ramoth of the Negeb, Jattir, Aroer, Siphmoth, Eshtemoa, Racal, the cities of the Jerahmeelites and Kenites, in Hormah, Borashan, Athach, Hebron, for all the places where David and his men had roamed. (1 Samuel 30)


title: Saul
content:
  ## King Saul

  The first king of Israel. 

  * Tribe: Benjamin, clan of the Matrites (1 Samuel 10:20-21)
  * Father: Kish
  * Wife: Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz
  * Children: Jonathan, Ishvi, Malchi-shua, Merab, Michal, Abinadab, and Ish-Bosheth
  * Uncle: Abner the son of Ner
  * (1 Samuel 9:1, 1 Samuel 14:49-51; 31:2) 

  When David marries Abigail and Ahinoam of Jezreel, Saul gives Michal to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim. (1 Samuel 25:39-44)

  He was a choice man, the tallest and most handsome man in Israel, but from the humblest family of the least tribe. (1 Samuel 9:2,21) He has a deeply religious and spiritual life, is even among the prophets in a way, and constantly uses the LORD's name when he talks, but he does not follow the LORD nor inquires of him. 

  He is anointed as first king of Israel while searching for his father's donkeys. He prophesies the first of several times, among other signs to know he will be king, so his people asked if he is also among the prophets. He spends the first part of his reign struggling against enemy nations. After his first victory, he waits while Jonathan takes initiative, does the sacrifice himself instead of waiting on Samuel, makes rash vows that pointlessly hurt his son, and fails to carry out the LORD's wrath against Amalek. 

  His kingdom is torn from him, and he loses the Spirit of the LORD but not his anointing as king. He gains an harmful spirit from the LORD. He takes in David to soothe it with music and, loving him, elevates him to armor-bearer and a commander in his army. 

  David's sweeping success, popularity, and "Saul his thousands, and David his ten thousands," stirred jealousy and hatred in Saul. He tried to snare David in marriage to Michal as reward for killing Goliath, threw spears at him, and when he escaped, pursued him in the wilderness to the detriment of Israel's border security. When he suspects Ahimelech of aiding David, he kills the 85 prophets of the LORD and the people of Nob. He only stops when David flees to Gath. 

  When the LORD falls silent, he seeks out the dead Samuel via a medium to learn he and his sons will be killed by the Philistines. They kill him on Mount Gilboa, put his armor in the temple of Ashtaroth, and fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan. Jabesh-gilead recover his family's bodies, burn them, and bury the bones under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh. (1 Samuel 31)

  When David is anointed king in Hebron, he only rules Judah, while the other tribes are rallied by Abner around Ish-bosheth. There is a civil war between the house of David and the house of Saul for seven years and six months. (2 Samuel 2) The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, beheaded Ish-bosheth and presented the head to David, claiming the LORD avenged him on Saul and his offspring. David had them executed. (2 Samuel 4)

  When all Israel met to make a covenant with David and anoint him king over all Israel and Judah, they said, "In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Israel." (2 Samuel 5:1-2)

  ### Saul's Life

  * Saul the Anointed
  * Saul Takes in David
  * Saul Pursues David
  * Saul's Downfall

  ## Saul, who was also called Paul


title: Hezro
content:
  David's mighty men were divided into the three and the thirty. Hezro of Carmel is one of the thirty.

  (2 Samuel 23:35)


title: Bashan
content:
  Og was King of Bashan. Struck down by God. (Psalm 135:11)

  Jeremiah prophesied through the destruction of Babylon, the lost sheep of Israel would be restored to his pasture to feed on Carmel, Bashan, Ephraim, and Gilead. (Jeremiah 50:17-20)


title: Ephraim
content:
  ## Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army

  * Meaning: Father of light
  * Burial place: Hebron (2 Samuel 3:32)
  * Father: Ner

  Abner usually at by Saul at the table, at a seat by the wall. (1 Samuel 20:25)

  He accompanied Saul and his army of 3000 to pursue David when the Ziphites told Saul David was hiding on the hill of Hachilah. David came in the night in their camp when the king slept with his commander and army all around and took the spear that was at Saul's head and the jar of water. The LORD had sent a deep sleep, so no one noticed. 

  From a great space, David called to Abner that he had not protected the LORD's anointed and deserved death. His spear and jar of water are missing. Saul recognized David and they resolved the conflict for now. Saul blessed him, and David went his way, and Saul returned to his place. (1 Samuel 26)

  **Civil War between David and Ish-Bosheth**

  Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim, and he made him king over Gilead and the Ashurites and Jezreel and Ephraim and Benjamin and all Israel, while David was anointed king over the house of Judah in Hebron. 

  Abner the son of Ner and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul went from Mahanaim to Gibeon, and Joab the son of Zeruiah and the servants of David met them at the pool of Gibeon. They each stayed on their own side. Abner asked Joab that the young men arise and compete, and Joab agreed. 12 men from each side arose and each caught his opponent by the head and thrust his sword in his opponent's side, so they fell down together. So that place was called Helkath-hazzurim. The battle was very fierce. The swift Asahel pursued Abner, and when Abner recognized him, he tried to persuade him to pursue another and plunder then finally with a threat. Failing, he struck him in the stomach with the butt of his spear, so that the spear came out at his back, killing him. All who came to Asahel's place and stood still. Zeruiah's other sons, Joab and Abishai pursued Abner until the sun was going down, and the people of Benjamin prepared to take a stand with Abner on the hill of Ammah. Abner called to Joab, "Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that the end will be bitter? How long will it be before you tell your people to turn from the pursuit of their brothers?" Joab confirms his words had he not spoken. Joab blew the trumpet, and Abner returned to Mahanaim after going through the Arabah all night. Joab's side lost 19, while Abner lost 360. 

  (2 Samuel 2)

  Abner was moving towards Judah intentionally, and David had Joab meet him. He was not satisfied with 11 tribes. (2 Samuel 2 (Part 2) Bible Study | Pastor Daniel Batarseh  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFBiAQvuk_Y&list=PLZLapfsgGtr9tjbTj8ReNYN0QSrAUHfSW&index=30)

  **The Fall of Abner**

  Abner was making himself strong in the house of Saul. Ish-bosheth asked why he went into his father's concubine, Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. Abner was very angry at this - "Am I a dog's head of Judah? To this day I keep showing steadfast love to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not given you into the hand of David. And yet you charge me today with a fault concerning a women. God do so to Abner and more also, if I do not accomplish for David what the LORD has sworn to him, to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to Beersheba." David agreed, so long as he first brings him Michal. Ish-bosheth sent and took Michal from her husband Paltiel the son of Laish, who followed her, weeping, all the way to Bahurim. Abner told him return, so he did. 

  Then Abner conferred with the elders of Israel, telling them to bring about their wish for David to be king, for the LORD promised, "By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel from the hand of the Philistines, and from the hand of all their enemies." He also spoke to Benjamin and brought their word to David at Hebron. Abner came with 20 men, and David made a feast for them, and Abner told him he will go gather all Israel to him to make a covenant and have him rule. David sent Abner away in peace.

  David did not know, but Joab sent messengers after Abner and brought him back from the cistern of Sirah. When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he struck him in the stomach so that he died. Joab and Abishai killed Abner to avenge Asahel.

  When David heard of it, he said, "I and my kingdom are forever guiltless before the LORD for the blood of Abner the son of Ner. May it fall upon the head of Joab and upon all his father's house, and may the house of Joab never be without one who has a discharge or who is leprous or who holds a spindle or who falls by the sword or who lacks bread!" David told Joab and all the people with him to tear their clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. King David followed the bier. They buried him at Hebron. 

  When David demonstrates his innocence at the funeral of Abner, he mourned and fasted and lamented:

  * Should Abner die as a fool dies? 
  * Your hands were not bound; / your feet were not fettered;
  * as one falls before the wicked / you have fallen.

  David also told his servants, "Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel? And I was gentle today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are more severe than I. The LORD repay the evildoer according to his wickedness!"

  (2 Samuel 3)

  Ish-bosheth's head was buried in the tomb of Abner in Hebron. (2 Samuel 4:12)


title: Ish-bosheth
content:
  Second king of Israel. 

  * **Reign**: 2 years, began at 40 years old
  * **Preceded by**: Saul
  * **Succeeded by**: David
  * **Tribe**: Benjamin, clan of the Matrites (1 Samuel 10:20-21)
  * **Father**: Saul
  * **Mother**: Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz(?)
  * **Siblings**: Jonathan, Malchi-shua, Merab, Michal, and Abinadab. (1 Samuel 14:49-51; 1 Samuel 31:2; 2 Samuel 2:8)
  * **Commander**: Abner the son of Ner
  * **Raiding Band Captains**: - The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah

  **Abner makes Ish-bosheth king**

  While David was anointed king over the house of Judah in Hebron, Abner the son of Ner made Ish-boseth the son of Saul king over Gilead, the Ashurites, Jezreel, Ephraim, and Benjamin, and all Israel, in Mahanaim. 

  **Ish-bosheth's army struggles against David's**

  In the battle of Gibeon, Joab the son of Zeruiah represented David against Abner the son of Ner and the servants of Ish-bosheth at the place that became Helkath-hazzurim. Then the three sons of Zeuriah, Joab, Abishai, and Asahel, pursued Abner. Abner killed Asahel, and the battle continued until Abner and the people of Benjamin prepared for a last stand on the hill of Ammah as the sun was going down. Abner called for the fight to end, and Joab complied. David's men missed 19 men, while Abner's men returned to Mahanaim in the morning, losing 360 men. 

  (2 Samuel 2)

  **Ish-bosheth accuses Abner and loses him to David**

  Saul's house grew weaker as David's increased. As Abner was making himself strong in Saul's house, he accused him of going into Saul's concubine. After having shown steadfast love to Saul's house, Abner was angry at being charged with a fault concerning a women, so he left and worked to unite all of Israel and Benjamin under David. (2 Samuel 3:1-11)

  **Ish-bosheth is murdered**

  Ish-bosheth's courage failed when he heard Abner had died at Hebron.  As he was taking his noonday rest, his raiding band captains, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, came into the midst of his house as if to get wheat and stabbed him in the stomach. They escaped, and Ish-bosheth went to his bed in his bedroom. Rechab and Baanah returned and struck him and put him to death and beheaded him. They took his head and went by the way of the Arabah all night to present the head to David at Hebron. David's young men buried the head in the tomb of Abner at Hebron. (2 Samuel 4)


title: Abner
content:
  ## Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army

  * Meaning: Father of light
  * Burial place: Hebron (2 Samuel 3:32)
  * Father: Ner

  **Abner, Saul's commander**

  Abner usually at by Saul at the table, at a seat by the wall. (1 Samuel 20:25)

  He accompanied Saul and his army of 3000 to pursue David when the Ziphites told Saul David was hiding on the hill of Hachilah. David came in the night in their camp when the king slept with his commander and army all around and took the spear that was at Saul's head and the jar of water. The LORD had sent a deep sleep, so no one noticed. 

  From a great space, David called to Abner that he had not protected the LORD's anointed and deserved death. His spear and jar of water are missing. Saul recognized David and they resolved the conflict for now. Saul blessed him, and David went his way, and Saul returned to his place. (1 Samuel 26)

  **Civil War between David and Ish-Bosheth**

  Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim, and he made him king over Gilead and the Ashurites and Jezreel and Ephraim and Benjamin and all Israel, while David was anointed king over the house of Judah in Hebron. 

  Abner the son of Ner and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul went from Mahanaim to Gibeon, and Joab the son of Zeruiah and the servants of David met them at the pool of Gibeon. They each stayed on their own side. Abner asked Joab that the young men arise and compete, and Joab agreed. 12 men from each side arose and each caught his opponent by the head and thrust his sword in his opponent's side, so they fell down together. So that place was called Helkath-hazzurim. The battle was very fierce. The swift Asahel pursued Abner, and when Abner recognized him, he tried to persuade him to pursue another and plunder then finally with a threat. Failing, he struck him in the stomach with the butt of his spear, so that the spear came out at his back, killing him. All who came to Asahel's place and stood still. Zeruiah's other sons, Joab and Abishai pursued Abner until the sun was going down, and the people of Benjamin prepared to take a stand with Abner on the hill of Ammah. Abner called to Joab, "Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that the end will be bitter? How long will it be before you tell your people to turn from the pursuit of their brothers?" Joab confirms his words had he not spoken. Joab blew the trumpet, and Abner returned to Mahanaim after going through the Arabah all night. Joab's side lost 19, while Abner lost 360. 

  (2 Samuel 2)

  Abner was moving towards Judah intentionally, and David had Joab meet him. He was not satisfied with 11 tribes. (2 Samuel 2 (Part 2) Bible Study | Pastor Daniel Batarseh  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFBiAQvuk_Y&list=PLZLapfsgGtr9tjbTj8ReNYN0QSrAUHfSW&index=30)

  **The Fall of Abner**

  Abner was making himself strong in the house of Saul. Ish-bosheth asked why he went into his father's concubine, Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. Abner was very angry at this - "Am I a dog's head of Judah? To this day I keep showing steadfast love to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not given you into the hand of David. And yet you charge me today with a fault concerning a women. God do so to Abner and more also, if I do not accomplish for David what the LORD has sworn to him, to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to Beersheba." David agreed, so long as he first brings him Michal. Ish-bosheth sent and took Michal from her husband Paltiel the son of Laish, who followed her, weeping, all the way to Bahurim. Abner told him return, so he did. 

  Then Abner conferred with the elders of Israel, telling them to bring about their wish for David to be king, for the LORD promised, "By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel from the hand of the Philistines, and from the hand of all their enemies." He also spoke to Benjamin and brought their word to David at Hebron. Abner came with 20 men, and David made a feast for them, and Abner told him he will go gather all Israel to him to make a covenant and have him rule. David sent Abner away in peace.

  David did not know, but Joab sent messengers after Abner and brought him back from the cistern of Sirah. When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he struck him in the stomach so that he died. Joab and Abishai killed Abner to avenge Asahel.

  When David heard of it, he said, "I and my kingdom are forever guiltless before the LORD for the blood of Abner the son of Ner. May it fall upon the head of Joab and upon all his father's house, and may the house of Joab never be without one who has a discharge or who is leprous or who holds a spindle or who falls by the sword or who lacks bread!" David told Joab and all the people with him to tear their clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. King David followed the bier. They buried him at Hebron. 

  When David demonstrates his innocence at the funeral of Abner, he mourned and fasted and lamented:

  * Should Abner die as a fool dies? 
  * Your hands were not bound; / your feet were not fettered;
  * as one falls before the wicked / you have fallen.

  David also told his servants, "Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel? And I was gentle today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are more severe than I. The LORD repay the evildoer according to his wickedness!"

  (2 Samuel 3)

  Ish-bosheth's head was buried in the tomb of Abner in Hebron. (2 Samuel 4:12)


title: Gilead
content:
  The Philistine army was like sand on the seashore at Michmash, so the men of Israel hid, while others crossed the fords of the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul remained at Gilgal. (1 Samuel 13:5-7)

  Abner the son of Ner made Ish-bosheth the son of Saul king over Gilead, the Ashurites, Jezreel, Ephraim, and Benjamin, and all Israel, in Mahanaim. (2 Samuel 2:9)

  Though Egypt gets balms from Gilead, there is no healing for them in Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon's conquest. (Jeremiah 46:11)

  Jeremiah prophesied through the destruction of Babylon, the lost sheep of Israel would be restored to his pasture to feed on Carmel, Bashan, Ephraim, and Gilead. (Jeremiah 50:17-20)


title: Mahanaim
content:
  While David was anointed king over the house of Judah in Hebron, Abner the son of Ner made Ish-boseth the son of Saul king over Gilead, the Ashurites, Jezreel, Ephraim, and Benjamin, and all Israel, in Mahanaim. 

  After the battle of Gibeon, Joab the son of Zeruiah represented David against Abner the son of Ner and the servants of Ish-bosheth at the place that became Helkath-hazzurim. David's men missed 19 men, while Abner's men returned to Mahanaim in the morning, losing 360 men. 

  (2 Samuel 2)


title: Zion
content:
  **King David takes the stronghold of Zion**

  After David was anointed king over all Israel, King David and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusite inhabitants of the land who said to David, "You will not come in here, but the blind and the lame will ward you off"--thinking, "David cannot come in here." David said, "Whoever would strike the Jebusites, let him get up the water shaft to attack 'the lame and the blind,' who are hated by David's soul," and defeated them. Therefore it is said, "The blind and the lame shall not come into the house." David lived in the stronghold and called it the city of David. And David built the city all around from the Millo inward. And David became greater and greater for the LORD, the God of hosts, was with him. (2 Samuel 5:1-10)


title: Merodach
content:
  Jeremiah prophesied Bel (Merodach) would be put to shame. (Jeremiah 50:1-2)

  The personal name of Bel, chief god of Babylon.

  (The ESV Study Bible<sup>TM</sup>, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 1463)

  ## List

  * Baal
  * Evil-Merodach


title: Bel
content:
  ## Baal

  ## Planescape: Torment 

  Lord Bel is a baatezu overseeing the Blood War. He uses one of Fhjull's horns as a drinking horn. 

  He has a gallary of skins in Baator, scarred flesh and breathing paintings. The violence of the gallery is great, nearing acceptable levels, but the scars are applied with almost tanar'ric crudity, without any care for maximizing the pain of the recipient. A baatezu artist would be much more devoted to the following the paths of pain across the body. Some of the wounds look like clean kills, others look as if a blind butcher were carving up human steaks. (Fhjull Forked-Tongue)

  He may be able to help a mortal regain his mortality. (Trias)


title: Water Shaft
content:
  **King David takes the stronghold of Zion**

  After David was anointed king over all Israel, King David and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusite inhabitants of the land who said to David, "You will not come in here, but the blind and the lame will ward you off"--thinking, "David cannot come in here." David said, "Whoever would strike the Jebusites, let him get up the water shaft to attack 'the lame and the blind,' who are hated by David's soul," and defeated them. Therefore it is said, "The blind and the lame shall not come into the house." David lived in the stronghold and called it the city of David. And David built the city all around from the Millo inward. And David became greater and greater for the LORD, the God of hosts, was with him. (2 Samuel 5:1-10)

  An extensive network of water tunnels have been excavated around the spring of Gihon, one of which was probably the water shaft through which David's men entered the city, led by Joab. This water shaft is often identified with Warren's Shaft directly over the water channel near the spring. (The ESV Study BibleTM, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 549)


title: Millo
content:
  The Hebrew word means "the fill." It was a series of terrace walls built on a steep slope, supporting the fill behind it in order to create level areas. Houses were built on these artificial platforms, which were connected by narrow staircases. It was the king's duty to look after this construction, apparently. During heavy rainfall, the fill became heavey and increased the pressure on the walls, thus requiring regular maintenance.

  (The ESV Study Bible<sup>TM</sup>, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 551)

  **King David takes the stronghold of Zion**

  After David was anointed king over all Israel, King David and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusite inhabitants of the land who said to David, "You will not come in here, but the blind and the lame will ward you off"--thinking, "David cannot come in here." David said, "Whoever would strike the Jebusites, let him get up the water shaft to attack 'the lame and the blind,' who are hated by David's soul," and defeated them. Therefore it is said, "The blind and the lame shall not come into the house." David lived in the stronghold and called it the city of David. And David built the city all around from the Millo inward. And David became greater and greater for the LORD, the God of hosts, was with him. (2 Samuel 5:1-10)


title: The Three
content:
  ## Bible

  David's mighty men were divided the three and the thirty.

  * Josheb-basshebeth, the chief
  * Eleazar
  * Shammah

  (2 Samuel 23: 8-12)


title: The Thirty
content:
  ## Bible

  David's mighty men were divided the three and the thirty.

  And three of the thirty chief men went down and came about harvest time to David at the cave of Adullam, when a band of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim. David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then at Bethlehem. And David said longingly, "Oh, that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate!" Then the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and carried and brought it to David. But he would not drink of it. He poured it out to the LORD and said, Far be it from me, O LORD, that I should do this. Shall I drink the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives? Therefore he would not drink it. These things the three mighty men did.

  (2 Samuel 23:13-17)

  * Abishai, the chief of the thirty
  * Benaiah
  * Asahel the brother of Joab
  * Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem
  * Shammah of Harod
  * Elika of Harod
  * Helez the Paltite
  * Ira the son of Ikkesh of Tekoa
  * Abiezer of Anathoth
  * Mebunnai the Hushathite
  * Zalmon the Ahohite
  * Maharai of Netophah
  * Heleb the son of Baanah of Netophah
  * Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the people of Benjamin
  * Benaiah of Pirathon
  * Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash
  * Abi-albon the Arbathite
  * Azmaveth of Bahurim
  * Eliahba the Shaalbonite
  * The sons of Jashen
  * Jonathan
  * Shammah the Hararite
  * Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite
  * Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai of Maacah
  * Eliam the son of Ahithophel of Gilo
  * Hezro of Carmel
  * Paarai the Arbite
  * Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah
  * Bani the Gadite
  * Zelek the Ammonite
  * Naharai of Beeroth
  * The armor-bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah
  * Ira the Ithrite
  * Gareb the Ithrite
  * Uriah the Hittite


title: Asahel
content:
  * Father: Buried in a tomb in Bethlehem (2 Samuel 2:32)
  * Mother: Zeruiah
  * Siblings: Joab, Abishai. (2 Samuel 2:18)

  **Battle of Gibeon**

  Abishai was at Gibeon under Joab his brother in the name of David to fight the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, led by Abner the son of Ner. Asahel was as swift of foot as a wild gazelle, and he pursued Abner relentlessly. Abner looked behind him and asked, "Is it you, Asahel?" And he answered, "It is I." Abner could not convince him to turn to another and take his spoils, so he threatened him. Asahel refused to turn away, so Abner struck him in the stomach with the butt of his spear, so that the spear came out at his back. He fell there and died where he was. And all who came to the place stood still. 

  Joab and Abishai pursued Abner until the sun started going down. The people of Benjamin gathered behind Abner to make a stand on the top of the hill of Ammah. Abner convinced Joab to cease battle, so they took up Asahel and buried him in the tomb of his father in Bethlehem. They returned to Hebron in the morning, having lost 20 men vs. Ish-bosheth's 360. (2 Samuel 2)

  Joab gives Abner a fool's death in Hebron, so Joab and Abishai his brother avenged Asahel. (2 Samuel 3:30)

  David's mighty men were divided into the three and the thirty. Asahel the brother of Joab is one of the thirty. (2 Samuel 23:24)


title: Guard
content:
  ## Haskell

  List comprehensions can use guards to restrict or filter the values produced by earlier generators.

  * [x | x <- [1..10], even x]
  * The list [2,4,6,8,10] of all numbers x such that x is an element of the list [1..10] and x is even.

  If you use a linq list comprehension or comprehension syntax that will be called WHERE.

  Using a guard we can define a function that maps a positive integer to its list of factors:

  * factors :: Int -> [Int]
  * factors n = 
  * [x | x <- [1..n], n `mod` x ==0]
  * > factors 15
  * [1,3,5,15]
  * we can define a function that decides if a number is prime:
  * prime :: Int -> Bool
  * prime n = factors n == [1,n]
  * > prime 15 
  * False
  * define a function that returns the list of all primes up to a given limit:
  * primes :: Int -> [Int]
  * primes n = [x | x <- [2..n], prime x]

  (FP101x)


title: Ox
content:
  "The wolf and the lamb shall graze together; the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and dust shall be the serpent's good. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain," says the LORD.

  (Isaiah 65:25)


title: Serpent's Stone
content:
  Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened cattle by the Serpent's Stone, which is beside En-rogel, and he invited all his brothers, the king's sons, and all the royal officials of Judah, but he did not invite Nathan the prophet or Benaiah or the mighty men or Solomon his brother.

  (1 Kings 1:9-10)


title: Mighty Men
content:
  David's mighty men were divided the three and the thirty.

  David's mighty men did not support Adonijah when he was exalting himself, saying "I will be king," during King David's old age. Neither did Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, Shimei, Rei, or Nathan the prophet.

  (1 Kings 1:8)


title: En-rogel
content:
  Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened cattle by the Serpent's Stone, which is beside En-rogel, and he invited all his brothers, the king's sons, and all the royal officials of Judah, but he did not invite Nathan the prophet or Benaiah or the mighty men or Solomon his brother.

  (1 Kings 1:9-10)


title: Zobah
content:
  Saul fought all his enemies on every side, including the kings of Zobah, when he took kingship over Israel. (1 Samuel 14:47)

  Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah is one of the thirty of David's mighty men. (2 Samuel 23:36)


title: Prophet
content:
  Prophets prophesy prophecies as a prophecy. Some prophets are false prophets.

  Formerly in Israel, a prophet was called a seer. (1 Samuel 9:9)

  ## List

  * Daniel
  * David the son of Jesse
  * Habakkuk
  * Isaiah
  * Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah
  * Micaiah the son of Imlah
  * Saul the son of Kish(?)
  * Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah


title: Shimei
content:
  ## Shimei

  Shimei did not support Adonijah when he was exalting himself, saying "I will be king," during King David's old age. Neither did Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, David's mighty men, Rei, or Nathan the prophet.

  (1 Kings 1:8)

  ## Shimei the son of Ela

  One of Solomon's twelve officers all over Israel who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for one month in the year.

  Shimei is over Benjamin.

  (1 Kings 4:7,18)

  ## Mordecai, the son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjaminite


title: Mordecai
content:
  ## Mordecai, the son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjaminite

  He was carried away from Jerusalem among the captives carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has carried away. He adopted orphaned Esther as his daughter, but she was the daughter of his uncle (so, his cousin?). (Esther 2:5-7)

  When Esther was brought into the harem, he advised her to keep her Jewish heritage private. He walked in front of the court of the harem every day to learn how she was and what was happening to her. Surely it was good news, since she was favored by Hegai and was advanced to the best place in the harem. When the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate. Bigthan and Teresh, two eunuchs who guarded the threshold, became angry and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. Mordecai told Esther who told the king in his name, which led to their hanging and a recording of the event in the book of the chronicles. (Esther 2:8-23)


title: Jerusalem
content:
  Jerusalem was located on a hill known as Ophel. It is located in the southeastern part of the modern city. 

  Jerusalem was not controlled by any tribe and was at the boundary of Judah and Benjamin, so King David took it as his capital.

  The Canaanite or Jebusite city of Jerusalem is mentioned in Egyptian texts from the 20th century B.C. The Ophel was inhabited as far back as the Chalcolithic period. 

  (The ESV Study BibleTM, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 549)

  **King David takes the stronghold of Zion**

  After David was anointed king over all Israel, King David and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusite inhabitants of the land who said to David, "You will not come in here, but the blind and the lame will ward you off"--thinking, "David cannot come in here." David said, "Whoever would strike the Jebusites, let him get up the water shaft to attack 'the lame and the blind,' who are hated by David's soul," and defeated them. Therefore it is said, "The blind and the lame shall not come into the house." David lived in the stronghold and called it the city of David. And David built the city all around from the Millo inward. And David became greater and greater for the LORD, the God of hosts, was with him. (2 Samuel 5:1-10)

  The Shulammite's beauty was compared to Jerusalem. (Song of Solomon 6:4)

  Zedekiah's opposition to Babylon eventually led the Babylonians to conquer Jerusalem in the fifth month (July/August) (Jeremiah 39:1-10) of 587 or 586 B.C. The captivity lasted until c.538-535 B.C., when Cyrus allowed the Jews to return to their homeland. (Ezra 1). (The ESV Study BibleTM, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 1369) Lamentations describes how blighted they were, hungry, killed, without comfort. (Lamentations 1)

  The kings of the earth didn't believe enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem. (Lamentations 4:12) Rehoboam withstood Shishak king of Egypt (1 Kings 14:25-28), Amaziah withstood Jehoash king of Israel (2 Kings 12:13-14), and Hezekiah withstood Shalmaneser king of Assyria (2 Kings 18:1-19:35). Then they finally fell to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. (Jeremiah 52)

  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon carried away Jeconiah king of Judah with the Jewish captives, including Mordecai. (Esther 2:5-6)


title: Bahurim
content:
  Azmaveth of Bahurim is one of the thirty of David's mighty men.

  (2 Samuel 23:31)

  Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim (1 Kings 8-9)


title: Azmaveth
content:
  David's mighty men were divided into the three and the thirty. Azmaveth of Bahurim is one of the thirty.

  (2 Samuel 23:31)


title: Anoint
content:
  The prophet Samuel anointed Saul (1 Samuel 10:1) and David (1 Samuel 16:13) to be king with a horn of oil. The Spirit of the LORD left Saul and was even replaced by a harmful spirit (1 Samuel 16:14), but he was still the LORD's anointed. (1 Samuel 24:6)


title: Cherethite
content:
  A band of Amalekites made a raid against the Negeb and against Ziklag. They had overcome Ziklag and burned it with fire and taken captive all the people, including Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail. An Egyptian servant of the Amalekites was left to die and revealed to David the band had raided against the Negeb of the Cherethites and against that which belongs to Judah and against the Negeb of Caleb, and they burned Ziklag with fire. (1 Samuel 30)

  The Cherethites and the Pelethites attended the anointing of Solomon as King David's successor. (1 Kings 1:38)


title: Pelethite
content:
  The Cherethites and the Pelethites attended the anointing of Solomon as King David's successor.

  (1 Kings 1:38)


title: Earth
content:
  ## Greek Mythology

  Earth, Erebus, and Love were the first beings. Love issued from the egg of Night, which floated on Chaos. By his arrows and torch, he pierced and vivified all things, producing life and joy.

  (Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, 1796. Page 10.)


title: Chaos
content:
  ## Greek Mythology

  From Chaos sprung the Earth and Heaven, which bore the Titans. The Titans Saturn and Rhea birthed Jupiter, father of gods and men.

  OR

  Earth, Erebus, and Love were the first beings. Love issued from the egg of Night, which floated on Chaos. By his arrows and torch, he pierced and vivified all things, producing life and joy.

  (Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, 1796. Page 10.)


title: Titan
content:
  ## Greek Mythology

  The elder gods whose dominion was afterwards transferred to others. Saturn yielded to Jupiter, Oceanus to Neptune, Hyperion to Apollo.

  Children of Earth and Heaven, which sprung from Chaos.

  (Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, 1796. Page 10.)

  ### List

  * Atlas
  * Eurynome
  * Hyperion
  * Iapetus
  * Mnemosyne
  * Oceanus
  * Ophion
  * Ops, Rhea
  * Saturn, Cronos
  * Themis


title: Jupiter
content:
  ## Greek Mythology

  Jupiter, Jove, Zeus

  He is the father and king of gods and men. Thunder was his weapon, born by the eagle, and Aegis was his shield. Saturn and Rhea were his Titan parents. Received his dominion over the heavens from Saturn. The Greek gods leisured in his Mount Olympus palace.

  (Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, 1796. Page 9-11.)

  ## History

  Saturn was a monster who devoured his children. Jupiter escaped, grew up, espoused Metis (Prudence), who administered a draught to Saturn which caused him to disgorge his children. Jupiter led his brothers to vanquish the Titans and imprison some in Tartarus and punish others.

  (Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, 1796. Page 11.)

  ## Character

  The ancients said of Jupiter that he was not at leisure to mind little things, but Jehovah condescends to care for the least of his creatures, and even looks into birds’ nests; will he not mercifully care for spirits who are heirs of a dread eternity?

  (Spurgeon's Sermons on Prayer by Charles H. Spurgeon (2007). Page 17-30., https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/the-ravens-cry/#flipbook/)

  ## Children

  * Diana, Artemis
  * Mars, Ares - Juno
  * Phoebus Apollo - Latona
  * Vulcan, Hephaestus - Juno

  ## Siblings

  * Neptune, Poseidon - ocean
  * Pluto, Dis - realms of the dead

  ## Wives

  * Juno, Hera - queen of the gods
  * Latona
  * Metis, Prudence - made a draught to disgorge Saturn's children


title: Oceanus
content:
  ## Greek Mythology

  A male titan. He yielded his dominion to Neptune.

  (Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, 1796. Page 10.)

  ## Planescape: Torment

  The River Oceanus winds through most all the Planes of Elysium, beginning and ending in the sea of Thalasia.

  (Yvana)


title: Neptune
content:
  ## Greek Mythology

  Poseidon

  Brother of Jupiter and Pluto. Received his dominion over the ocean from Oceanus.

  (Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, 1796. Page 10-11.)


title: Put
content:
  Fruitlessly aided Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, against Babylon. They handle the shield. (Jeremiah 46:9)


title: Azor
content:
  The son of Eliakim and the father of Zadok. He was in the line of Christ through Joseph. (Matthew 1:13-14)


title: Achim
content:
  The son of Zadok and the father of Eliud. He was in the line of Christ through Joseph. (Matthew 1:14)


title: Eli
content:
  Father of Hophni and Phinehas.

  **Eli blesses Hannah**

  He thought Hannah was drunk and scolded her during her fervent prayer to conceive Samuel. After realizing his mistake, he asked her to go in peace and may the LORD grant her request. After receiving the promised son, Samuel, he blessed Elkanah to have more children by Hannah, and three sons and two daughters came.

  **Eli's house is cursed**

  His sons did not know the LORD and despised the sacrifices and lay with the tent of meeting maidservants. Ultimately, a man of God told Eli he would be withdrawing his selection of his house as a priesthood and raise a new, faithful priest. There would be no old man in his house, his descendants would die by the sword, they will be envious of the prosperity of Israel, and only one will remain to weep. Hophni and Phinehas shall die on the same day as a sign.

  (1 Samuel 1,2)

  After putting Adonijah to death for asking for Abishag as his wife, Solomon said to Abiathar, "Go to Anathoth, to your estate, for you deserve death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because you shared in all my father's affliction." So Solomon expelled Abiathar from being priest to the LORD, thus fulfilling the word of the LORD that he had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

  (1 Kings 2:26-27)


title: Books of the Bible
content:
  ## Old Testament

  * Genesis
  * Exodus
  * Leviticus
  * Numbers
  * Deuteronomy
  * Joshua 
  * Judges
  * Ruth 
  * 1 Samuel
  * 2 Samuel
  * 1 Kings
  * 2 Kings
  * 1 Chronicles
  * 2 Chronicles
  * Ezra
  * Nehemiah
  * Esther
  * Job
  * Psalm
  * Proverbs
  * Ecclesiastes
  * Song of Solomon
  * Isaiah
  * Jeremiah
  * Lamentations
  * Ezekiel
  * Daniel
  * Hosea
  * Joel
  * Amos
  * Obadiah
  * Jonah
  * Micah
  * Nahum
  * Habakkuk
  * Zephaniah
  * Haggai
  * Zechariah
  * Malachi

  ## New Testament

  * Matthew
  * Mark
  * Luke
  * John
  * Acts
  * Romans
  * 1 Corinthians
  * 2 Corinthians
  * Galatians
  * Ephesians
  * Colossians
  * 1 Thessalonians
  * 2 Thessalonians
  * 1 Timothy
  * 2 Timothy
  * Titus
  * Philemon
  * Hebrews
  * James
  * 1 Peter
  * 2 Peter
  * 1 John
  * 2 John
  * 3 John
  * Jude
  * Revelation 


title: Authority
content:
  All authority comes from God.

  2 Timothy 3:16: All Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness. 

  This refers to the whole Old Testament, and extension of the claim for the New Testament is not explicitly stated. It is not merely implied, though. Paul's writings are catalogued with "other Scriptures" (2 Peter 3:15-16: and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which there are some things that are hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.) Under the heading of "Scripture," 1 Timothy 5:18 cites Luke 10:7 alongside Deuteronomy 25:4 (For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox while it is threshing,” and “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”). The book of Revelation claims divine origin (1:1-3) and employs the term "prophecy" in the Old Testament sense (22:9-10,18). The apostles did not distinguish their spoken and written teaching but expressly declared their inspired proclamation to be the Word of God. 

  1 Corinthians 4:1: This is the way any person is to regard us: as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

  2 Corinthians 5:20: Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

  1 Thessalonians 2:13: For this reason we also constantly thank God that when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of mere men, but as what it really is, the word of God, which also is at work in you who believe.

  J. Gresham Machen wrote that belief in the central message of the Bible is core to Christianity, not belief in biblical inerrancy. But he believed the whole Bible is to be considered "the seat of authority." He was convinced the doctrine of inerrancy avoids instability in expounding authoritative doctrine and morals. He insisted that a "mediating" view of the Bible is not tenable. "Modernists" who claim to honor the authority of Jesus rather than the Scripture contradict His teaching since Jesus held a high view of Scripture. 

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Page 14-22.)

  ## Threats

  The principle of cultural dependency undermines Paul's teachings on the position of women, homosexuality, and the authority of Scripture, and times when biblical teaching coincides with Jewish tradition. The Bible is not derived from mere tradition but it is God-breathed. Otherwise, how can you establish an objective criteria for distinguishing between apparently authoritative and unauthoritative apostolic doctrine. 


title: Revelation
content:
  ## Book

  The last book of the Bible. 

  Some branches of the Syriac church do not include this book in their canon. (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020)

  ### Topics

  * Seven Angels with Seven Plagues

  ## List 

  * General Revelation, General Divine Revelation
  * Special Revelation


title: Canon
content:
  ## Bible

  The books that meet the standard and are worthy of inclusion. They have to have God's authority for what they say. God spoke through its human author to teach his people what to believe and how to behave. It is not just a record of revelation, but the permanent written form of revelation. This makes the books of the Bible different from all other books.

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Page 51-52.)

  Like in the case of the Book of the Covenant, referred to in Exodus 24, it was possible for a short document like Exodus 20-23 to become canonical before it had grown to anything like the length of the book that now embodies it. Genesis also embodies earlier documents (Genesis 5:1). Numbers includes an item from an ancient collection of poems (Numbers 21:14), and the unfinished book of Deuteronomy was considered canonical even within Moses' lifetime (Deuteronomy 31:24-26), for this writing was placed beside the Ark. The Bible commonly refers to the Pentateuch as canonical, but others are asserted as canonical or inspired through their authors. Isaiah 34:16, Psalm 149:9, and Daniel 9:2 are exceptions. The Pentateuch was basically completed by one prophet by the time of Ezra and Nehemiah and was closed to continual addition. The other books were produced later and were not complete until after the return from the Babylonian exile. 

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Page 51-56.)

  ### Disputes

  The Samaritans rejected all books of the OT except the Pentateuch. 

  From the 2nd century B.C. onward, pseudonymous works, usually of an apocalyptic character, claim inspiration and find credence in circles. 

  According to rabbinical literature, the first few centuries of the Christian era, certain sages disputed on internal evidence, the canonicity of Ezekiel, Proverbs, Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, and Esther. 

  In the patristic period, the inspiration Apocrypha of the Greek and Latin Bibles was uncertain. During the Reformation, the church of Rome insisted the Apocrypha was Old Testament, while the Protestant churches deny it. The Church of England includes it in its lectionary (example of life but not to establish doctrine). The Eastern Orthodox Church was divided but has recently tended more to the Protestant side.

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Page 51-52.)

  ## Etymology

  It's borrowed from Greek *kanon* meaning a rule, standard for measurement. Used since the 4th century by Christians to denote an authoritative list of books belonging to the Old and New Testaments. 

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Page 51.)


title: New Testament
content:
  The writers of the New Testament completed their manuscripts within about 60 years of Jesus' crucifixion. No original writings survived, but we have approximately 15,000 complete manuscripts or partial quotations of the New Testament today that were written or copied within the first several hundred years following Christ's death--thousands more than any other writings from that era.

  (FaithQuest - Student Edition (DP) by Sharon Berry and Ollie Gibbs (2008). Page 7.)

  ## Structure

  27 books in total. 

  The Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John) and Acts are historical, telling the life of Christ and the results of the Great Commission and effects of the Holy Spirit. God's plan of redemption is fully revealed in these books. 

  The epistles were the next 13 books, written by Paul and apostles and apostolic men to explain God's plan of redemption. 9 were addressed to Christian churches (Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians). All these books describe Christian doctrine and its application to life. The next four (1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon) are personal and focus on godly counsel. The last nine are general epistles, all speaking to Jews who have become Christians and are experiencing persecution. 

  Revelation is the final and only prophetical book in the New Testament, describing the end of the world and Jesus' second return. 

  (FaithQuest - Student Edition (DP) by Sharon Berry and Ollie Gibbs (2008). Pages 7-8)

  ## Theme

  Practical instruction for Christians. Paul wrote in 1 Corintians 10:11: Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

  If the OT records what "God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets," the NT record the final word He spoke to His Son, summing up, confirming, and transcending the earlier revelation. Jesus is also man's perfect response to God - the high priest as well as the apostle of our confession. Hebrews 3:1: Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus.

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Page 7-8)

  ## Timeline

  The earliest books were early Paul epistles and James (A.D. 48-60). The Gospels were A.D. 60-100, as well as the other NT books. 

  The Gospels had a local and independent existence in the constituencies for which they were composed, but by the beginning of the 2nd century, they were brought together and circulated as a fourfold record, detaching Acts from Luke and circulating on its own. Paul's letters were preserved by the communities or individuals to whom they were sent, but by the end of the 1st century, his surviving correspondence was being collected into a Pauline corpus and quickly circulated - first as 10 then as 13 (the Pastoral Epistles). They were ordered by length. (and today, our NT epistles are ordered by group, but then roughly by length within the group.)

  There were Latin and Syriac versions of the New Testament by A.D. 200, and a Coptic one within the following century.

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Page 9-10)


title: Aramaic
content:
  Aramaic's origin is unknown, but it seems closely related to Amorite and other ancient Northwest Semitic dialects. It perhaps the longest continuous living history of any language known, used during the day of the Patriarchs and today. Aramaic and its cognate Syriac evolved into many dialects in different places and periods. It's characterized by simplicity, clarity, and precision, and adapts well for everyday life, scholars, lawyers, and merchants. 

  No Aramean kingdom has really existed, but various Aramean states developed into influential centers. We've found a few short Aramean inscriptions from 10-8th century B.C. By the 8th century B.C., King Hezekiah's representatives requested the spokesmen of the Assyrian king Sennacherib to "speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don't speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall." (2 Kings 18:26)  By the Persian period, Aramaic was the language of international trade due to the Jewish captivity, while Hebrew gradually became confined to the learned and the religious leaders. After the Babylonian exile, Aramaic influence pervaded the land of Palestine. Nehemiah complained that mixed children were unable to speak Hebrew (Nehemiah 13:24). Jews continued using Aramaic widely during the Persian, Greek, and Roman periods. Eventually, the Hebrew Scriptures were translated into Aramaic paraphrases called Targums, some of which were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls.

  Aramaic was a common language of Palestine during Jesus' day. New Testament names reflect Aramaic (Bartholomew, Bar-jonah, Barnabas), Greek (Andrew, Philip), Latin (Mark), as well as Hebrew. Aramaic, Greek, and Hebrew were widely used. Latin was probably limited to military and governmental circles. Mishnaic Hebrew was also used, and Mishnaic Hebrew documents were found with the Dead Sea Scrolls.

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 227-229)

  ## Holy Language

  The Bible is written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. Aramaic is linguistically close to Hebrew and is written in the same script in the Bible. It is found in Daniel 2:4b-7:27 and Ezra 4:8-6:18; 7:12-26), and elsewhere in phrases and expressions like Genesis 31:47, Jeremiah 10:11, and the New Testament.

  In Genesis 31:47, Jacob, father of Israel, and Laban, an Aramean, referred to the same memorial or "witness heap" in their own language: Galeed vs. Jegar-sahadutha.

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 217, 227)

  Hebrew is the holy language, Aramaic is a secondary holy language, and Arabic is an everyday language.

  (Ancient Semitic - Ancient Semitic I: The Semitic Languages - A Brief Introduction - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c8HUM_u7RI)

  ### Character

  Though, less euphonious and poetical, it is superior for exact expression while being linguistically close to Hebrew. It uses a larger vocabulary with many loan words and a greater variety of connectives, elaborate system of tenses. It uses participles with pronouns or various forms of "to be." 

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 228)

  ### Archaeology 

  The oldest examples of a Canaanite alphabet were preserved in the Ugaritic cuneiform alphabet of the 14th century B.C. The old style is called the Phoenician or paleo-Hebrew script and is the predecessor to Greek and Western alphabets. The modern script is Aramaic or square script and became widespread after Israel's exile into Babylon (6th century B.C.) but did not entirely replace the old. Early Christian era coins and God's name in the Dead Sea Scrolls use the old.

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Biblical Languages by Larry Walker. Page 221)


title: Temple
content:
  ## Morrowind

  The Tribunal Temple or "The Temple" is the native religion. They worship three God-Kings, Almalexia, Sotha Sil, and Vivec, who are known together as the Tribunal. Talk to Feldrelo Sadri at the Balmora Temple to join.

  (Caius Cosades)

  The Tribunal Temple is at war with a rebellious faction, the Dissident Priests. Ordinators persecute and imprison them, which has driven them underground. They stuck Malur Omayn in the Ministry of Truth.

  (Ulveni Daram, Larrius Varro)

  ### Duties

  * Make the Pilgrimages of the Seven Graces

  ### People

  * Feldrelo Sadri - Balmora Temple
  * Endryn Llethan - Ald'ruhn
  * Tharer Rotheloth - Molag Mar

  ### Ranks

  * Novice


title: Lamentations
content:
  A book of the Bible with no author attributed written during the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem.

  ## Summary

  * 1 - How Lonely Sits the City - Jerusalem is like the great who became a widow, a princess to a slave, someone with lovers but no one to comfort her, her festivals are desolate, and her virgins are afflicted. Jerusalem's sin and nakedness without care for the future made her filthy. Enemy nations reach her precious things, and forbidden people entered the LORD's congregation. People trade their treasure for food. She bears the yoke of her transgressions. The LORD is right for Jerusalem has rebelled. Jerusalem asks Him to judge her foes as He judges her.
  * 2 -  The Lord Has Destroyed Without Pity - The LORD swallowed up Israel and multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah, laying waste to his temple and making Zion forget festival and Sabbath. The anonymous poet's eyes are spent with weeping because babies faint in the streets, crying to their mothers for bread and wine, and their life is poured out on their mothers' bosom. The prophets misled her. Her enemies rejoice. Daughter of Zion, cry out in the night and pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord! O LORD, should women eat the fruit of their womb or priests be killed in the sanctuary? The enemy destroyed those whom the anonymous poet held and raised.
  * 3 - Great is Your Faithfulness - I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath. The LORD has made him dwell in darkness, shut out his prayers, made his ways crooked, and made his soul bereft of peace. He has hope because the steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, and he is good to those who wait for him for He will not cast off forever. You came near when I called on you; you said, 'Do not fear!' You have seen the wrong done to me and will repay them.
  * 4 - The Holy Stones Lie Scattered - The sons of Zion are now so lowly that their people are starving or killed, their white princes are unrecognizably sooty, the prophets and murderous priests are so defiled with blood that they are fugitives and rejected from nations. Zion's punishment is worse than Sodom's instant destruction. Jackals nurse their young, but infants are thirsty, children are hungry, and compassionate women boil their children. They fell, and Edom rejoiced, though they will receive the cup in time. Zion's punishment and exile is over.
  * 5 - Restore Us to Yourself, O LORD - Look O Lord at our disgrace - our inheritance is lost to strangers, we are orphans, mothers are widows, water and wood comes at a price, they give the hand to their enemies for bread, and slaves rule. They bear the iniquities of their dead fathers. Women are raped, princes are executed, elders are disrespected, men grind the mill, boys carry wood. Joy and dancing has turned to mourning. The crown has fallen. For this our heart is sick: Mount Zion is desolate, and jackals prowl over it. The LORD reigns forever; His throne endures to all generations. Restore us.

  ## Topics

  **Figures**

  * 

  **Peoples**

  * 

  **Places**

  * Assyria
  * Edom
  * Egypt
  * Jerusalem
  * Judah
  * Zion

  **Other**

  * 

  **Verses**

  * Lamentations 2:18-19: Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears stream down like a torrent day and night! Give yourself no rest, your eyes no respite! Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches! Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord! Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.
  * Lamentations 2:20 - Look, O LORD, and see! With whom have you dealt thus? Should women eat the fruit of their womb, the children of their tender care? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
  * Lamentations 3:25-30 - The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. Let him sit alone in silence when it is laid on him; let him put his mouth in the dust--there may yet be hope; let him give his cheek to the one who strikes, and let him be filled with insults. For the Lord will not cast off forever, but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love; for he does not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men. 
  * Lamentations 3:49-50 - My eyes will flow without ceasing, without respite, until the Lord from heaven looks down and sees; 
  * Lamentations 4:3 - Even jackals offer the breast; they nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
  * Lamentations 4:6 - For the chastisement of the daughter of my people has been greater than the punishment of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment, and no hands were wrung for her. 
  * Lamentations 5:7 - Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities.
  * Lamentations 5:19 - But you, O LORD, reign forever, your throne endures to all generations. 


title: Ammah
content:
  The hill of Ammah lies before Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon. (2 Samuel 2:24)

  **Battle of Gibeon**

  Abishai was at Gibeon under Joab his brother in the name of David to fight the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, led by Abner the son of Ner. Asahel, then Joab and Abishai pursued Abner until the sun started going down. The people of Benjamin gathered behind Abner to make a stand on the top of the hill of Ammah. Abner convinced Joab to cease battle. (2 Samuel 2)


title: Gibeon
content:
  Abner led Saul's men and Joab led David's men to the pool of Gibeon and 12 fought 12 and died, so the place was called Helkath-hazzurim. The swift Asahel pursued Abner relentlessly, so Abner killed him with the butt of his spear, and all who came to him and stood still. His brothers, Joab and Abishai pursued Abner until the sun was going down and Benjamin made their last stand with Abner on the hill of Ammah. Abner asked if the sword shall devour forever, and Joab said yes if they had not spoken, blowing the trumpet to stop. Abner and his men went through Arabah that night and returned to Mahanaim and had lost 360 men. Joab gathered David's men and was missing 19 men. (2 Samuel 2)

  At Gibeon, the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream and gave him wisdom. (1 Kings 3:5-15)

  King Solomon sacrificed at the high places, particularly the great high place that was in Gibeon. 

  (1 Kings 3:4-5)

  ## Places

  * Pool of Gibeon
  * Helkath-hazzurim


title: Joab
content:
  ## Joab the son of Zeruiah

  * Tribe: 
  * Father: Buried in a tomb in Bethlehem (2 Samuel 2:32)
  * Mother: Zeruiah
  * Siblings: Abishai, Asahel. (2 Samuel 2:18)

  **Battle of Gibeon**

  As the pool of Gibeon, Joab and the servants of David met Abner the son of Ner and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul. They each stayed on their own side. Abner asked Joab that the young men arise and compete, and Joab agreed. 12 men from each side arose and each caught his opponent by the head and thrust his sword in his opponent's side, so they fell down together. So that place was called Helkath-hazzurim. The battle was very fierce. The swift Asahel pursued Abner, and when Abner recognized him, he tried to persuade him to pursue another and plunder then finally with a threat. Failing, he struck him in the stomach with the butt of his spear, so that the spear came out at his back, killing him. All who came to Asahel's place and stood still. Zeruiah's other sons, Joab and Abishai pursued Abner until the sun was going down, and the people of Benjamin prepared to take a stand with Abner on the hill of Ammah. Abner called to Joab, "Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that the end will be bitter? How long will it be before you tell your people to turn from the pursuit of their brothers?" Joab confirms his words had he not spoken. Joab blew the trumpet, and Abner returned to Mahanaim after going through the Arabah all night. Joab's side lost 19, while Abner lost 360. (2 Samuel 2:12-32)

  Joab came to David with the army and spoils from a raid, and he was told Abner had been there and David sent him away in peace. He asked the king why he did that when he knows Abner came to deceive him and to know his comings and goings. 

  Joab left David's presence and sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the cistern of Sirah without David's knowledge. When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he struck him in the stomach and killed him. Joab and Abishai killed Abner for the death of their brother Asahel. When David heard about it, he proclaimed the guilt fall upon the head of Joab and upon all his father's house. He also proclaimed, "may the house of Joab never be without one who has a discharge or who is leprous or who holds a spindle or who falls by the sword or who lacks bread!"

  David told Joab and the people with him to tear their clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. David followed the bier, and they buried Abner at Hebron. David told his servants he was gentle, but the sons of Zeruiah are severe. The LORD repay the evildoer according to his wickedness. (2 Samuel 3)

  The commander of David's army. (2 Samuel 24:2)

  The brother of Abishai, (inferred) the son of Zeruiah. (1 Samuel 26:6, 2 Samuel 23:18)

  The armor-bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah was one of the thirty of David's mighty men. (2 Samuel 23:37)

  He and Abiathar the priest supported Adonijah when he was exalting himself, saying "I will be king," during King David's old age. (1 Kings 1:7)

  He attended the sacrifice at Serpent's Stone near En-rogel, ate, drank, and said "Long live King Adonijah!" When he heard the noise of Solomon's anointment as king as he finished feasting. Joab asked "What does this uproar in the city mean?" (1 Kings 1:9, 1:25, 1:41)

  David's final instructions to Solomon includes, "...you also know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, how he dealt with the two commanders of the armies of Israel, Abner the son of Ner, and Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, avenging in time of peace for blood that had been shed in war, and putting the blood of war on the belt around his wait and on the sandals on his feet. Act therefore according to your wisdom, but do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace." (1 Kings 2:5-6)

  When he heard King Solomon had Adonijah put to death, he fled to the tent of the LORD and caught hold of the horns of the altar. Solomon heard of this and sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, "Go, strike him down." Joab refused to come out, "No I will die here." Solomon said, "Do as he has said, strike him down and bury him, and thus take away from me and from my father's house the guilt for the blood that Joab shed without cause. The LORD will bright back his bloody deeds on his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men more righteous and better than himself, Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah. So shall their blood come back on the head of Joab and on the head of his descendants forever. But for David and for his descendants and for his house and for his throne there shall be peace from the LORD forevermore." Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went and struck him down and put him to death, and buried him in his own house in the wilderness. The king put Benaiah over the army in place of Joab, and the king put Zadok in place of Abiathar. (1 Kings 2:28-25)


title: Arabah
content:
  Barren area in the Jordan valley. 

  (https://bibleatlas.org/arabah.htm)

  David fled the wilderness of Ziph to the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon. Saul pursued him. David heard and went down to the rock and lived in the wilderness, evading Saul, until Saul nearly had him before a messenger interrupted him with news of a Philistine raid. (1 Samuel 23:24-29)

  After the battle of Gibeon between Joab the son of Zeruiah and Abner the son of Ner, Abner's men went all the night through the Arabah, crossed the Jordan, and marched all morning until coming back to Mahanaim. (2 Samuel 2)

  The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, beheaded Ish-bosheth and went by the way of the Arabah all night to present it to David at Hebron. (2 Samuel 4)

  During Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon's seige of Jerusalem during Zedekiah king of Judah's reign, the Chaldeans were sieging, breached, and headed in Arabah's direction and pursued the king until capturing him in the Plains of Jericho. (Jeremiah 52:4-9)


title: Jerome
content:
  Pupil of Clement of Alexandria and translator of the Bible into Latin, the Vulgate.

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Pages 38.)

  (347-420 A.D. Died in Bethlehem, Palestine. He is traditionally regarded as the most learned of the Latin Fathers. He lived for a time as a hermit, became a priest, served as secretary to Pope Damasus I, and ~389 established a monastery at Bethlehem. His biblical, ascetical, monastic, and theological works profoundly influenced the early Middle Ages. He is considered a doctor of the church.

  (Origin of the Bible handout by Margaret Ames, February 8, 2023. Page 6.)


title: Doctor
content:
  ## Social Engineer

  Uses elicitation, proper interview tactics, interrogation tactics.

  (Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking by Christopher Hadnagy, 2011. Page 17-18)


title: Latin
content:
  In vino veritas - Latin for "In wine, there is truth," attributed to Roman philosopher Pliny the Elder.

  (https://www.businessinsider.com/is-there-such-a-thing-as-truth-serum-2014-10)


title: Vulgate
content:
  The Latin translation. 

  In the Vulgate and Douay Bible, 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel are called 1 + 2 Kings. 

  (The ESV Study Bible<sup>TM</sup>, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 485)

  The order of its books is imitated by most Christian Bibles today. (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Page 6.)


title: Douay
content:
  In the Vulgate and Douay Bible, 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel are called 1 + 2 Kings. 

  (The ESV Study Bible<sup>TM</sup>, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 485)


title: Pop
content:
  ## Calculus

  Pop is the f<sup>(6)</sup>(t) or the sixth derivative of time. For more, see Acceleration's article.

  (18.01.1x discussions by EmilyMcKee and jfrench, justuslearning.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/AIAAOC_SnapCracklePop_docx.pdf)

  ## Linux

  Most email clients use the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) or the older Post Office Protocol (POP) to access emails stored on a remote mail server. 

  (LFS101x)


title: Covenant
content:
  ## Etymology

  God made a covenant with Israel in the wilderness. Jeremiah 31:31 "Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah." Hebrews 8:13: "When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is about to disappear." The NT writers see the fulfillment of the new covenant prophecy in the new order inaugurated by the work of Christ. He said in 1 Corinthians 11:25:  In the same way He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”

  (The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Page 5.)

  Jonathan brought David into a covenant of the LORD. (1 Samuel 20:8)

  Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, "May the LORD take vengeance on David's enemies" (1 Samuel 20:16)

  David told Nathan his thoughts about building the Ark a house, and the LORD responds through Nathan that David is not called to build the LORD a house. But the LORD is going to build David a house. An offspring from his body will build a house for His name, and He will establish the throne of His kingdom forever. His steadfast love will not leave him. David's house and kingdom shall be made sure forever before Him. (2 Samuel 7) Jesus is the root and the descendant of David. (Revelation 22:16)


title: Ark
content:
  ## Noah's Ark

  Noah built an Ark for at least 2 of each animal, male and female, that preserved life on earth through the Flood.

  ## Ark of God, Ark of the LORD, Ark of the Covenant


title: Jeroboam
content:
  ## Jeroboam the son of Nebat

  Husband of an unnamed woman (Ano?), father of Abijah. His reign was 22 years. His son Nadab reigned in his place. (1 Kings 19-20)

  The kingdom was torn away from the house of David and given to him, but while David kept His commandments and followed God with all his heart, doing only that which was right in His eyes, he did evil above all who were before him and have made other gods and metal images. (1 Kings 14:7-9)

  There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. (1 Kings 14:30)

  **Curse over his family**

  When Abijah fell sick, Jeroboam sent his wife in disguise to Ahijah in Shiloh with ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey to learn his fate. The LORD alerted Ahijah in advance of her coming, and he recognized her despite his failing vision and told her all Jeroboam males will be cut off for his wickedness and idolatry and, when she returns home, Abijah will die. Where every other male will be eaten by dogs in the city or birds in the open country, Abijah will be mourned and buried by all Israel for in him there is found something pleasing to the LORD, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam. Israel will be scattered beyond the Euphrates because of the sins of Jeroboam. 

  When Jeroboam's wife came to Tirzah, to the threshold of the house, he died, was mourned, and was buried, according to the word of the LORD. 

  (1 Kings 14:1-18)

  **Ahab**

  Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, O my enemy?" He answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the LORD. Behold, I will bring disaster upon you. I will utterly burn you up, and will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel. And I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the anger to which you have provoked me, and because you have made Israel to sin. And of Jezebel the LORD also said, "The dogs shall eat Jezebel within the walls of Jezreel.' Anyone belonging to Ahab who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone of his who dies in the open country the birds of the heavens shall eat. (1 Kings 21:20-24)


title: Adonijah
content:
  Haggith's son, the fourth son of David, who wanted to be king in King David's old age. His siblings were Amnon and Absalom.

  * **Tribe**: Judah
  * **Birthplace**: Hebron
  * **Father**: King David
  * **Mother**: Haggith
  * **Siblings**: Amnon of Ahinoam of Jezreel, Chileab of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur, Adonijah the son of Haggith, Shephatiah the son of Abital, and Ithream of Eglah. (2 Samuel 3:2-5), Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada, Eliphelet. (2 Samuel 5:13-16)

  Adonijah announced himself as the next king, preparing chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. David never reprimanded his behavior. He was also a very handsome man and swayed Joab the son of Zeruiah and Abiathar the priest. Zadok the priest and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and Nathan the prophet and Shimei and Rei and David's mighty men were against him. (1 Kings 1:5-8)

  Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened cattle by the Serpent's Stone, which is beside En-rogel, and he invited all his brothers, the king's sons, and all the royal officials of Judah, but he did not invite Nathan the prophet or Benaiah or the mighty men or Solomon his brother. The guests ate and drank and said, "Long live King Adonijah!" (1 Kings 1:9-10, 1:25)

  Bathsheba and Nathan the prophet took news of Adonijah's exaltation to King David, who responded by sending Zadok, Nathan, and Benaiah to anoint King Solomon. After, all the people went up after him, playing on pipes, and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth was split by their noise. (1 Kings 1:11-40)

  Adonijah and his guests sacrifice heard the noise as they finished feasting. Joab asked "What does this uproar in the city mean?" Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came. Adonijah said, "Come in, for you are a worthy man and bring good news." But Jonathan told him Solomon sits on the royal throne. Then the guests trembled and rose, and each went his own way. 

  Adonijah feared Solomon, so he took hold of the horns of the altar, and it was said, "Behold, Adonijah fears King Solomon, for behold, he had laid hold of the horns of the altar, saying, 'Let King Solomon swear to me first that he will not put his servant to death with the sword.'" Solomon said, "If he will show himself a worthy man, not one of his hairs shall fall to the earth, but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die." So King Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and paid homage to King Solomon, and Solomon said to him, "Go to your house."

  (1 Kings 1:41-53)

  Adonijah went to Bathsheba and asked her to ask King Solomon to give him Abishag the Shunammite as his wife. Bathsheba complied. Solomon answered, "And why do  you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also, for he is my older brother, and on hsi side are Abiathar the priest and Joab the son of Zeruiah." Then he swore by the LORD, saying, "God do so to me and more also if this word does not cost Adonijah his life! Now therefore as the LORD lives, who has established me and placed me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death today." So King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he struck him down, and he died.

  (1 Kings 2:13-25)

  2 Samuel 16:20-22 suggests sexual liaison with the king's concubines amounted to a claim to the throne. Abishag wasn't strictly a concubine, but she was intimately associated in people's minds with David. Solomon appears to interpret Adonijah's request as a revival of the conspiracy of 1 Kings 1, the "wickedness" Solomon warned him against in 1 Kings 1:52.

  (The ESV Study Bible<sup>TM</sup>, English Standard Version (ESV) by Crossway Bibles, 2007. Page 596)


title: Haggith
content:
  King David's wife and mother of Absalom and Adonijah. (1 Kings 1:5-8)

  * Husband: King David
  * Children: Adonijah the son of Haggith (2 Samuel 3:2-5)


title: Shephatiah
content:
  The fifth son of King David.

  * Tribe: Judah
  * Birthplace: Hebron
  * Father: King David
  * Mother: Abital
  * Siblings: Amnon of Ahinoam of Jezreel, Chileab of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur, Adonijah the son of Haggith, Shephatiah the son of Abital, and Ithream of Eglah. (2 Samuel 3:2-5), Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada, Eliphelet. (2 Samuel 5:13-16)


title: Shammua
content:
  The seventh(?) son of King David.

  * Tribe: Judah
  * Birthplace: Jerusalem
  * Father: King David
  * Mother: 
  * Siblings: Amnon of Ahinoam of Jezreel, Chileab of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur, Adonijah the son of Haggith, Shephatiah the son of Abital, and Ithream of Eglah (2 Samuel 3:2-5), Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada, Eliphelet. (2 Samuel 5:13-16)


title: Shobab
content:
  The eighth(?) son of King David.

  * Tribe: Judah
  * Birthplace: Jerusalem
  * Father: King David
  * Mother: 
  * Siblings: Amnon of Ahinoam of Jezreel, Chileab of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur, Adonijah the son of Haggith, Shephatiah the son of Abital, and Ithream of Eglah (2 Samuel 3:2-5), Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada, Eliphelet. (2 Samuel 5:13-16)


title: Ibhar
content:
  The eleventh(?) son of King David.

  * Tribe: Judah
  * Birthplace: Jerusalem
  * Father: King David
  * Mother: 
  * Siblings: Amnon of Ahinoam of Jezreel, Chileab of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur, Adonijah the son of Haggith, Shephatiah the son of Abital, and Ithream of Eglah (2 Samuel 3:2-5), Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada, Eliphelet. (2 Samuel 5:13-16)


title: Elishua
content:
  The twelth(?) son of King David.

  * Tribe: Judah
  * Birthplace: Jerusalem
  * Father: King David
  * Mother: 
  * Siblings: Amnon of Ahinoam of Jezreel, Chileab of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur, Adonijah the son of Haggith, Shephatiah the son of Abital, and Ithream of Eglah (2 Samuel 3:2-5), Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada, Eliphelet. (2 Samuel 5:13-16)


title: Nepheg
content:
  The thirteenth(?) son of King David.

  * Tribe: Judah
  * Birthplace: Jerusalem
  * Father: King David
  * Mother: 
  * Siblings: Amnon of Ahinoam of Jezreel, Chileab of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur, Adonijah the son of Haggith, Shephatiah the son of Abital, and Ithream of Eglah (2 Samuel 3:2-5), Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada, Eliphelet. (2 Samuel 5:13-16)


title: Japhia
content:
  The fourteenth(?) son of King David.

  * Tribe: Judah
  * Birthplace: Jerusalem
  * Father: King David
  * Mother: 
  * Siblings: Amnon of Ahinoam of Jezreel, Chileab of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur, Adonijah the son of Haggith, Shephatiah the son of Abital, and Ithream of Eglah (2 Samuel 3:2-5), Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada, Eliphelet. (2 Samuel 5:13-16)


title: Elishama
content:
  The fifteenth(?) son of King David.

  * Tribe: Judah
  * Birthplace: Jerusalem
  * Father: King David
  * Mother: 
  * Siblings: Amnon of Ahinoam of Jezreel, Chileab of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur, Adonijah the son of Haggith, Shephatiah the son of Abital, and Ithream of Eglah (2 Samuel 3:2-5), Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada, Eliphelet. (2 Samuel 5:13-16)


title: Eliada
content:
  The sixteenth(?) son of King David.

  * Tribe: Judah
  * Birthplace: Jerusalem
  * Father: King David
  * Mother: 
  * Siblings: Amnon of Ahinoam of Jezreel, Chileab of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur, Adonijah the son of Haggith, Shephatiah the son of Abital, and Ithream of Eglah (2 Samuel 3:2-5), Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada, Eliphelet. (2 Samuel 5:13-16)


title: David the Shepherd Boy
content:
  The LORD sent Samuel to anoint one of Jesse's sons for kingship. All his brothers passed while he tended sheep. Samuel sent for him, and the LORD directed him to be anointed. The LORD rushed upon David from that day forward. (1 Samuel 16:1-13)

  Saul sent for the renown man of music and valor David to play the lyre whenever God's harmful spirit tormented him, causing the spirit to flee. Saul came to love David so much, that he made him his armor-bearer and asked Jesse for his position to be made permanent. (1 Samuel 16:14-23)

  **David and Goliath**

  David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem while Israel was campeed in the Valley of Elah against the Philistines camped between Socoh and Azekah in Ephes-dammim. Jesse sent David with an ephah of parched grain and ten loaves of bread to his three oldest brothers, Eliab, Abinadab, and Shammah, and ten cheeses to their commander. David arrived and left everything with the baggage keeper and met his brothers. Goliath of Gath came out and challenged Israel, so David asked who the uncircumcised Philistine was to challenge the army of the living God. Saul sent for him, and David convinced him to let him fight, since the LORD already delivers him from lions and bears. He rejected Saul's armor and sword, though, equipping a staff, a sling, and five stones from the brook. Goliath asked if he was a dog to be approached with a stick, and David said the LORD saves not with sword and spear. David's first stone killed him, and he cut his head with Goliath's own sword. He returned to Jerusalem, and Abner brought him to Saul, giant's head in hand, and revealed to Saul that Jesse was is father. (1 Samuel 17)


title: David the Royal Servant
content:
  **David joins Saul's royal family**

  Immediately, Jonathan loved him. Saul took him and didn't allow him to return to Jesse's house. Jonathan made a covenant, gave him his robe, his armor, his sword, his bow, and his belt. David was placed over Saul's men of war, seeing success and popularity with the people and Saul's servants. The nation's women sang Saul struck down thousands and David ten thousands. Saul raved later, so David played his lyre day by day, but Saul hurled the spear in his hand at him. David evaded twice. Saul removed him and set him as commander of a thousand, so he went out and came in before the people and found success and love from his country.

  Saul offered Merab in marriage, but David downplayed his eligibility to become son-in-law to the king. She was given to Adriel the Meholathite when David should have received her. Michal loved him, so Saul offered her and had his servants convince him to become son-in-law. David refused the honor on grounds of his poverty and reputation. But when they told him Saul wanted no bride-price but a hundred Philistine foreskins, it pleased him. David brought double, receiving Michal. And David had more success against the princes of the Philistines than all servants of Saul, so his name was highly esteemed. (1 Samuel 18)

  Jonathan warns David that Saul seeks to kill him and to hide. Jonathan returned and reported that Saul has sworn not to put David to death and brought him back to Saul's presence as before. (1 Samuel 19)


title: David the Refugee
content:
  **David Flees Saul**

  There was war again, and David struck the Philistines with a great blow,  so that they fled before him. When he returned, the harmful spirit returned, so David played the lyre. Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear in his hand, but he eluded Saul and fled and escaped that night. 

  Saul's messengers watched David at his house, plotting murder. Michal warned him to escape tonight and let him down the window, and he escaped to Samuel at Ramah and told him everything Saul had done to him. They both went and lived at Naioth. When Saul's messengers came after them, but when they saw the company of prophets prophesying, the Spirit of God came upon them, and they also prophesied. This happened to three groups of messengers. Saul himself went and he stripped off his clothes and prophesied before Samuel and lay naked all that day and all that night. (1 Samuel 19)

  **Jonathan's Arrows**

  David fled from Naioth and asked Jonathan why Saul seeks his life. Jonathan had heard nothing, but Saul wouldn't grieve his son by telling him. David planned with Jonathan to not come to the table with the king and to hide in the field. If Saul misses him, Jonathan should tell him he went to sacrifice in Bethlehem and gauge his reaction. But David asked if there is sin in him, for Jonathan to kill him himself. Jonathan asked for harm to be brought on him if he doesn't help David, otherwise to love his house forever when the LORD cuts off all David's enemies. On the third day, he planned to shoot 3 arrows to the side of his stone heap hiding place, send a boy after them, and call either to take the arrows or that the arrows are beyond him. 

  David hid himself at new moon. 

  On the third day, Jonathan shot his arrows and told his boy, "Is not the arrow beyond you?" and "Hurry! Be quick! Do not stay!" then sent the boy to town with the weapons. David rose, fell on his face, bowed three times, and they kissed and wept together, having sworn the LORD be between them and their offspring forever. David left and Jonathan went into the city.

  (1 Samuel 20)

  **David takes the Holy Bread**

  David came to Nob and asked Ahimelech the priest for five loaves of bread under the pretense of a secret matter on behalf of the king. There being no bread but the bread of the Presence, he took that. He also asked for a spear or sword, due to the haste of his task, and received the sword of Goliath the Philistine, which was wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. 

  Then David fled and went to Achish the king of Gath. The servants asked if David was not the one who struck down his ten thousands, and David became afraid of Achish. He pretended to be insane, marking doors and letting spittle run down his beard. Achish thought he was mad. (1 Samuel 21)

  **Return to Judah**

  David departed and hid in the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and all his fathers house heard it, they joined him, as did everyone in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, until he was captain of 400 men. Then David went to Mizpeh of Moab and left his father and mother with their king until the prophet Gad told him to return to Judah. He went to the forest of Hereth. As Doeg the Edomite slaughtered the priests, Abiathar escaped and fled after David. David knew Doeg would tell Saul, and that he occasioned the priests' deaths, so he told Abiathar he will keep him safe. (1 Samuel 22)

  **Rescues treacherous Keilah**

  When David heard the Philistines were fighting Keilah, he inquired of the LORD whether he should go and whether he would win, then he encouraged his men to strike them down with a great blow. Abiathar fled to Keilah, ephod in hand, and David, knowing Saul's plot, requested the ephod and learned Saul was coming and Keilah would surrender him to him. He and his now 600 men departed and went wherever they could go, remaining in the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country of the wilderness of Ziph, evading Saul every day. 

  (1 Samuel 23:1-14)

  **Rock of Escape**

  David saw Saul was coming to kill him, but Jonathan went to David at Horesh and strengthened his hand in God. He told him not to fear as the future king of Israel whom even Saul acknowledges. They made a covenant, and Jonathan returned home. When David was in the wilderness of Maon in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon, he was told Saul was coming, and he evaded Saul until he was closing in and suddenly interrupted by news of a Philistine raid. Therefore, the place was called the Rock of Escape. And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of Engedi.

  (1 Samuel 23:15-29)

  **David tear's Saul's robe**

  David and his men were hiding in the wilderness of Engedi at the Wildgoats' Rocks in a cave when Saul came in to relieve himself. His men told him it was the day the LORD gave his enemy into his hand to do as it shall seem good to him. David stealthily cut off a corner of Saul's robe, then his heart struck him for doing that to the LORD's anointed. He persuaded his men to not attack Saul. When Saul left, David called after him, bowing. He showed the robe corner and said may the LORD judge and avenge, but his hand was not going to be against him. Saul asked if he was his son David, and called him more righteous than him. He asked the LORD reward him. He knew David would be king, so he asked he not cut off his offspring nor destroy his name out of his father's house, and David swore it. Saul went home, and David went up to the stronghold. (1 Samuel 24)

  **Abigail**

  Samuel died, was mourned by all Israel, and was buried in his house at Ramah. Then David went to the wilderness of Paran, where his men took nothing and protected the nearby shearers of Nabal, a rich man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He sent ten men to greet Nabal in his name and to ask for what he had on hand, but he refused them rudely. David told his men to strap on their swords and 400 to follow while 200 stay back with the baggage. One of Nabal's men told Abigail about Nabal's unfair response and impending harm by David. She took 200 loaves, 2 skins of wine, 5 sheep already prepared, 5 seahs of parched grain, 100 clusters of raisins, and 200 cakes of figs on donkeys. When she met David, she bowed, took the guilt, affirmed his house, and asked him wait for the LORD so he has no bloodguilt. When the LORD deals well with him, remember her. David blessed her, took her gift, and sent her in peace. Abigail returned to Nabal feasting and drunk, so she told him in the morning. His heart died within in, he became as a stone, and 10 days later, he died. David sent for Abigail as a wife, and also Ahinoam of Jezreel. Saul gave Michal to Palti the son of Laish who was of Gallim. (1 Samuel 25)

  **David steals Saul's spear and jar of water**

  David hid in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul came and camped on the hill of Hachilah, which is beside the road on the east of Jeshimon. When he noticed, he sent spies to confirm Saul's presence. Out of Ahimelech the Hittite and Joab's brother Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Abishai went with him. David came to the camp at night and saw Saul sleeping with Abner the son of Ner and the army of 3000 around him, but the LORD had sent a deep sleep so no one noticed. Abishai saw the LORD had given Saul into their hands and said he could kill him in one hit. David told him guilt would be upon anyone who strikes the LORD's anointed, but regardless, the LORD would strike him or he would die in battle someday. Instead, they took the spear that was stuck in the ground near Saul's head and the jar of water. 

  From a great space, David called to Abner that he had not protected the LORD's anointed and deserved death. His spear and jar of water are missing. Saul recognized David, and David asked him that if he was stirred by the LORD that the LORD may accept an offering, but if he was stirred by men, that they may be cursed. They had driven David out so he had no share in the heritage of the LORD, telling him to serve other gods. Saul claimed to be in sin and asked David to return in peace. David offered his spear back to one of Saul's young men and asked the LORD to see his own life as precious like how he had viewed Saul's. Saul blessed him, and David went his way, and Saul returned to his place. (1 Samuel 26)

  **David flees to Philistia**

  David said in his heart that Saul would kill him so he, Ahinoam of Jezreel, Abigail of Carmel, and his 600 men should flee to Philistia. They lived with Achish, king of Gath. David asked for his own place, and Achish gave him Ziklag, which still belonged to the Kings of Judah in the time of the book of Samuel. They lived in Philistia for a year and 4 months. David and his men raided the Geshurites, Girzites, Amalekites, the inhabitants of the land from of old, as far as Shur to the land of Egypt, killing every man and woman but taking the livestock and garments. When Achish asked, David explained he raided the Negeb of Judah, of the Jerahmeelites, the Kenites, and David knew no one lived to report otherwise. Achish trusted him, believing he became a stench to Israel and will always be his servant. (1 Samuel 27)

  The Philistines gathered their forces for war against Israel. Achish told David, "Understand that you and your men are to go out with me in the army." David said, "Very well, you shall know what your servant can do." And Achish said to David, "Very well, I will make you my bodyguard for life." The Philistines encamped at Shunem, while all of Israel encamped at Gilboa. (1 Samuel 28:1-4)

  The Philistines gathered all their forces at Aphek, by hundreds and thousands, while the Israelites were encamped by the spring in Jezreel. The lords of the Philistines asked why these Hebrews were here. Achish told the commanders David has been with them for days and years without fault. The Philistines insisted "ten thousands" David could become a threat to them in battle, so despite Achish viewing him as blameless as an angel of God, he had to send David and his servants back to Philistia early next morning, while the Philistines continued to Jezreel. (1 Samuel 29)

  **Ziklag burned, David's wives captured**

  David and his men returned to Ziklag the third day, and it was burned with everyone taken captive and no one killed. David and his men wept for their wives and daughters, including David's Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel. David was greatly distressed because the men spoke of stoning him, but he strengthened himself in the LORD his God. 

  David asked Abiathar for the ephod and asked whether to pursue this band. God affirmed him, so 600 men went out with him. 200 stayed by the brook Besor out of fatigue. The 400 continued with David and found an Egyptian, so they brought him to David. David gave him bread and water and a piece of cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. He had not eaten or had water in three days, so his spirit revived. David questioned him, and he introduced himself as a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite. His master left him behind because he was sick. They had made a raid against the Negeb of the Cherethites and against that which belongs to Judah and against the Negeb of Caleb, and they burned Ziklag with fire. David asked to be taken to the band, and the Egyptian agreed, on the condition David not kill him or turn him over to his master. 

  They were celebrating their spoil, and David struck them down from twilight until evening the next day with no survivors but 400 camel riders. The thievery was completely recovered, including his wives. He also captured the flocks and herds, "David's spoil." David returned to the 200 tired men, and his 400 thought to not share the spoils, only give back family. David insisted the share was equal for those who go into battle and he who stays by the baggage. He made it a statute and a rule for Israel from that day forward to the time of writing. David returned to Ziklag and sent part of the spoil to his friends, the elders of Judah as a present from the spoil of enemies of the LORD, for those in Bethel, Ramoth of the Negeb, Jattir, Aroer, Siphmoth, Eshtemoa, Racal, the cities of the Jerahmeelites and Kenites, in Hormah, Borashan, Athach, Hebron, for all the places where David and his men had roamed.

  (1 Samuel 30)


title: David the King of Judah
content:
  **Saul and Jonathan are dead, Israel routed**

  3 days after David returned to Ziklag, a man with clothes torn and dirt on his head came and fell on the ground and paid homage to David, saying he escaped from the Israel camp. David asked how the battle went, and he said the people fell and Saul and Jonathan died. He asked how this man knew, and by chance, he happened to be on Mount Gilboa when he saw Saul leaning on his spear with the chariots and horsemen pursuing closely. Saul called to him and asked who he was. Learning he was an Amalekite, he asked him to kill him. He complied, knowing Saul was close to death. He took Saul's crown and armlet to David. 

  David and his men mourned and fasted until evening for Saul, Jonathan, and the people of the LORD and the house of Israel. David learned he was the son of a sojourner, an Amalekite. He asked how he did not fear to destroy the LORD's anointed then executed him for his own mouth testified against him.

  David lamented over Saul and Jonathan with a lamentation referred to as The Song of the Bow or the Lament of the Bow that he said should be taught to the people of Judah. It was written in the Book of Jashar.

  * “Your glory, O Israel, is slain on your high places! / How the mighty have fallen!
  * Tell it not in Gath, / publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon,
  * lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, / lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.
  * “You mountains of Gilboa, / let there be no dew or rain upon you, / nor fields of offerings!
  * For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, / the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.
  * “From the blood of the slain, / from the fat of the mighty,
  * the bow of Jonathan turned not back, / and the sword of Saul returned not empty.
  * “Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely! / In life and in death they were not divided;
  * they were swifter than eagles; / they were stronger than lions.
  * “You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, / who clothed you luxuriously in scarlet, / who put ornaments of gold on your apparel.
  * “How the mighty have fallen / in the midst of the battle!
  * “Jonathan lies slain on your high places. / I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan;
  * very pleasant have you been to me; / your love to me was extraordinary, / surpassing the love of women.
  * “How the mighty have fallen, / and the weapons of war perished!”

  (2 Samuel 1)

  **David anointed King of Judah**

  David inquired of the LORD if he should go up to any of the cities of Judah. The LORD said, "Go up." David said, "To which shall I go up?" And he said, "To Hebron." So David, his wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, and his men went up to live in the towns of Hebron, where the people of Judah anointed David king over the house of Judah. 

  When David learned about Jabesh-gilead burying Saul, he sent messengers to them and said, "May you be blessed by the LORD, because you showed this loyalty to Saul your lord and buried him. Now may the LORD show steadfast love and faithfulness to you. And I will do good to you because you have done this thing. Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant, for Saul your lord is dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me king over them." David was king in Hebron for 7 years and 6 months, but Ish-bosheth the son of Saul was king in Mahanaim over Gilead, the Ashurites, Jezreel, Ephraim, Benjamin, and all of Israel. 

  In the battle of Gibeon, Joab the son of Zeruiah represented David against Abner the son of Ner and the servants of Ish-bosheth at the place that became Helkath-hazzurim. Then the three sons of Zeuriah, Joab, Abishai, and Asahel, pursued Abner. Abner killed Asahel, and the battle continued until Abner and the people of Benjamin prepared for a last stand on the hill of Ammah as the sun was going down. Abner called for the fight to end, and Joab complied. David's men returned to Hebron in the morning with 19 men missing, while Abner lost 360 men. 

  (2 Samuel 2)

  Sons were born to David at Hebron - Amnon of Ahinoam of Jezreel, Chileab of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur, Adonijah the son of Haggith, Shephatiah the son of Abital, and Ithream of Eglah.

  Abner sent messengers to David, saying, "To whom does the land belong? Make your covenant with me, and behold, my hand shall be with you to bring over all Israel to you." David accepted upon the condition he first sees Michal. He also sent messengers to Ish-bosheth to ask for his wife back, so Ish-bosheth took her from her husband Paltiel the son of Laish. Abner conferred with the elders of Israel and Benjamin then went to tell David at Hebron all that Israel and the whole house of Benjamin thought good to do. Abner came with 20 men to David at Hebron, and David made a feast for them. Abner said he will go and gather all Israel to David to make a covenant with him so he may reign. David sent him away in peace.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

  Just then the servants of David arrived with Joab from a raid, bringing much spoil. It was told to Joab that Abner came to the king and was let go in peace, so Joab went to David and asked why. He must know that Abner came to deceive him and to know his going out and his coming in and all that he is doing. 

  David was later told Joab had killed Abner, so he said, "I and my kingdom are forever guiltless before the LORD for the blood of Abner the son of Ner. May it fall upon the head of Joab and upon all his father's house, and may the house of Joab never be without one who has a discharge or who is leprous or who holds a spindle or who falls by the sword or who lacks bread!" David told Joab and all the people with him to tear their clothes and put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner, and David followed the bier. They buried Abner at Hebron. The king and all the people wept, and David lamented, 

  * Should Abner die as a fool dies? 
  * Your hands were not bound; / your feet were not fettered;
  * as one falls before the wicked / you have fallen.

  The people tried to persuade David to eat bread while it was yet day, but David swore, "God do so to me and more also, if I taste bread or anything else till the sun goes down!" All the people were pleased and understood it was not the king's will to put Abner the son of Ner to death. He said, "Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel? And I was gentle today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are more severe than I. The LORD repay the evildoer according to his wickedness!"

  (2 Samuel 3)


title: Song of the Bow
content:
  **The Song of the Bow or the Lament of the Bow**

  Originator of the phrase "how the mighty have fallen." (First Page Google Results)

  When David learned Saul and Jonathan were dead and Israel routed at Mount Gilboa by the Philistines, David lamented over Saul and Jonathan with a lamentation he said should be taught to the people of Judah. It is also written in the Book of Jashar.

  (2 Samuel 1)

  The Book of Jasher is for recording accounts of significant moments in Israel's history. Of all the times, Saul's death is chosen for meditation by future generations. The Book of Jasher is now lost to time, but God ensured this excerpt is preserved in canonized Scripture. We should observe this personal lament by David for Saul, Jonathan, and all of Israel.

  (2 Samuel 1 (Part 2) Bible Study | Pastor Daniel Batarseh by Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M80xL-pEIdk)

  * “Your glory, O Israel, is slain on your high places! / How the mighty have fallen!
  * Tell it not in Gath, / publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon,
  * lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, / lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.
  * “You mountains of Gilboa, / let there be no dew or rain upon you, / nor fields of offerings!
  * For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, / the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.
  * “From the blood of the slain, / from the fat of the mighty,
  * the bow of Jonathan turned not back, / and the sword of Saul returned not empty.
  * “Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely! / In life and in death they were not divided;
  * they were swifter than eagles; / they were stronger than lions.
  * “You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, / who clothed you luxuriously in scarlet, / who put ornaments of gold on your apparel.
  * “How the mighty have fallen / in the midst of the battle!
  * “Jonathan lies slain on your high places. / I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan;
  * very pleasant have you been to me; / your love to me was extraordinary, / surpassing the love of women.
  * “How the mighty have fallen, / and the weapons of war perished!”

  (2 Samuel 1)

  ## Why

  Obvious, David would lament Jonathan. But why did he lament Saul? And why would he have this taught to Judah, his own tribe?

  There is something to be learned from Saul's death. Perhaps there was a prophetic element. 

  Also, David genuinely loved Saul. How could he not? He lived with him and grew under him. Also, deaths broke David. He knew eternity, so perhaps the deaths of the wicked were tragic.

  He was also aware of the contempt for God's people that would come from the failure of His leader. 

  The good of man and the glory of God preceded himself, his ambition, comfort, and his position. Moses also put the glory of God in the eyes of all nations before any opportunity given to increase himself.

  (2 Samuel 1 (Part 2) Bible Study | Pastor Daniel Batarseh by Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M80xL-pEIdk)

  ## Meditation

  The Mighty fall to sin when they do not know how to conquer the heart by the power of the Holy Spirit. Pride, sexual temptation. Let not the heart turn aside to her ways. Saul's jealous thought, David's one glance that he did not kill when it was a suggestion and it became illicit sex.

  Keep news silent of the fall, lest the world be strengthened in their unbelief and given more ammo. Do not bring issues within the house of God before unbelievers. Deal with it inside the church, or you are saying the principles of God are not effective for reconciling the drama and we need the world's courts. Better to give it all away for the sake of Christ's name. Obviously David knew Gath knew, but he wants his people to be aware of how they speak of the fall of their leaders. Don't share sins outside the church, but if it's so serious it's no longer containable, communicate and express the issues in redemptive ways. Let us be wise, and if it comes to that point, let's be broken over it and declare the gospel and point to the righteousness of Jesus in it. You would reap more fruit if you don't focus on failings of the church all day and instead were concerned with God's glory.

  David is desiring Creation to mourn Saul, as what happened there is the result of sin. Some even say he is cursing Mount Gilboa. Sin makes us empty and barren. He curses the Mount to be unable to offer God grain, just as sin robbed Saul of the worship of his body to the LORD.

  His relationship with Saul makes it shocking to hear him describe "beloved" and "lovely" and "undivided against his son" Saul. But he was, at the beginning of his reign. His success made Israel rich. And Saul and Jonathan went on to die together in battle. David not only refused to touch the LORD's anointed, but he also did not damage his reputation. He was honorable and Christ-like. Don't relive trauma. Know the freedom of being able to honor those who are not worthy of it, especially if their position is honorable. "Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you. Your heart knows that many times you yourself have cursed others." (Ecclesiastes 7:21-22) David never lies and starts mentioning his spirituality. He was honest.

  He gave special tribute to Jonathan because he had a connection with him that he did not have with Saul. Gays point to this as a proof text, but that points to our society being so sexualized that it is unfathomable to have love and a meaningful relationship without sex and to have a deep friendship outside of marriage. You cannot know true love outside of God. It doesn't help that David wasn't honoring God's principles in the context of marriage, possibly never knowing the true fulfillment of marriage. If such a love is possible, moreso with the One who made your heart.

  David overlooked Saul's resume of sins. In Christ, Christ will not bring up our faults. And He will not speak of our goodness but Christ's goodness. 

  (2 Samuel 1 (Part 2) Bible Study | Pastor Daniel Batarseh by Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M80xL-pEIdk)


title: Book of Jasher
content:
  An apocryphal book mentioned in Joshua 10:13 and 2 Samuel 1:18. There are a number of translations, but since the original is lose to time, they cannot be verified. 

  (https://www.christianity.com/wiki/bible/what-is-the-book-of-jasher.html)

  It holds accounts of significant moments in Israel's history.

  (2 Samuel 1 (Part 2) Bible Study | Pastor Daniel Batarseh by Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M80xL-pEIdk)

  There is a book called “The Book of Jasher” today, although it is not the same book as mentioned in the Old Testament. It is an eighteenth-century forgery that alleges to be a translation of the “lost” Book of Jasher by Alcuin, an eighth-century English scholar. There is also a more recent book titled “The Book of Jashar” by science fiction and fantasy writer Benjamin Rosenbaum. This book is a complete work of fiction.

  Another book by this same name, called by many “Pseudo-Jasher,” while written in Hebrew, is also not the “Book of Jasher” mentioned in Scripture. It is a book of Jewish legends from the creation to the conquest of Canaan under Joshua, but scholars hold that it did not exist before A.D. 1625. In addition, there are several other theological works by Jewish rabbis and scholars called “Sefer ha Yashar,” but none of these claim to be the original Book of Jasher.

  (https://www.gotquestions.org/book-of-Jasher.html)

  And David lamented with a lamentation over Saul and Jonathan his son called the Song of the Bow or the Lament of the Bow, and he said it should be taught to the people of Judah; behold, it is written in the Book of Jashar. (2 Samuel 1:18)


title: David the King of Israel
content:
  **David's third anointing**

  All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, "Behold, we are your bone and flesh. In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. And the LORD said to you, 'You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.'" So the elders made a covenant with David and anointed him king over Israel. 

  He and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusite inhabitants who said to David, "You will not come in here, but the blind and the lame will ward you off"--thinking, "David cannot come in here." David said, "Whoever would strike the Jebusites, let him get up the water shaft to attack 'the lame and the blind,' who are hated by David's soul," and defeated them. Therefore it is said, "The blind and the lame shall not come into the house." David lived in the stronghold and called it the city of David. And David built the city all around from the Millo inward. And David became greater and greater for the LORD, the God of hosts, was with him.

  Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David and cedar trees and carpenters and masons who built David a house. David knew the LORD had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted the kingdom for the sake of his people.

  David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.

  When the Philistines learned David was king, they came out, and David went down to the stronghold. They spread out in the Valley of Rephaim, so David inquired of the LORD whether he should go up and win, and he defeated them at Baal-perazim, the name taken from David's words that "The LORD has burst through my enemies before me like a bursting flood" and carried away their idols. Then, again, they came out in the Valley of Rephaim, and the LORD had David defeat them from the rear and come against them opposite the balsam trees. When he hears the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, rouse himself, for the LORD has gone out before David's army to strike down the army of the Philistines. David obeyed struck them down from Geba to Gezer.

  (2 Samuel 5)

  **David brings the Ark to Jerusalem**

  David gathered all the chosen men of Israel, 30,000, to bring the ark of God from Baale-judah out of Abinadab's house to Jerusalem. Abinadab's sons brought it on a new cart, Ahio in the front, and Uzzah driving. David and all the house of Israel were making merry before the LORD with songs, lyres, harps, tambourines, castanets, and cymbals. When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, the oxen stumbled and Uzzah put his hand to the ark and held it, so God struck him down for his error. David was angry, and the place is called Perez-uzzah even still in the days of 2 Samuel. David asked, "How can the ark of the LORD come to me?" So he took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite for three months. 

  When David heard, "The LORD has blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God," David brought it from Obed-edom's house to the city of David. After the ark moved six steps, David sacrificed an ox and a fattened animal and danced before the LORD with all his might in his linen ephod, and all the house of Israel was shouting with the sound of the horn. 

  Michal watched from her window and despised David. David had the ark set in a tent he had pitched for it and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings then blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hoses and distributed all men and women of Israel a cake of bread, a portion of meat, a cake of raisins, and each departed to his house. 

  David returned to bless his household, but Michal came out to meet David, saying, "How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants' female servants, as one of the vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!" And David said to Michal, "It was before the LORD, who chose me above your father and above all his house, to appoint me as prince over Israel, the people of the LORD--and I will make merry before the LORD. I will make myself yet more contemptible than this, and I will be abased in your eyes. But by the female servants of whom you have spoken, by them I shall be held in honor." And Michal had no child to the day of her death.

  (2 Samuel 6)

  **David will not build the LORD's house, but the LORD will build his house**

  Israel had rest from his surrounding enemies. David told Nathan the prophet that he noticed his cedar house compared to the ark's tent. Nathan told him to do what is in his heart for the LORD is with him. 

  Then Nathan told David what the LORD had told Nathan that same night: He has lived in a tent since Egypt and never asked for a house. He took David from the pasture, from following sheep, to be prince over Israel, and the LORD had been with him wherever he went and had cut off all his enemies. He will give David a great name like the great ones of the earth. And He will appoint a place for his people Israel so they may dwell and be disturbed no more. The LORD will make David a house. When he dies, He will establish the throne of his offspring forever. "I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men, but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you." 

  Then David went in and sat before the LORD and asked who he is and what is his house, that he was brought thus far. He said there is no one like God and His people Israel. God redeems His people, makes Himself a name, and does great and awesome things for them. He established for Himself His people Israel to be His people forever. David asked the LORD to confirm forever the word He spoke. You are God, Your words are true, and if it please You, bless the house of your servant David so it may continue forever before You.

  (2 Samuel 7)


