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The Bible is a collection of canonical sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity.Different religious groups include different books within their canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate additional material into canonical books.
Achan ( / ˈeɪkæn /; Hebrew: עָכָן, romanized : ‘Āḵān ), the son of Carmi, a descendant of Zimri, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, is a figure who appears in the Book of Joshua in the Hebrew Bible in connection with the fall of Jericho and conquest of Ai . His name is given as Achar (עָכָר֙ ‘Āḵār) in 1 ...
Absalom ( Hebrew: אַבְשָׁלוֹם ʾAḇšālōm, "father of peace ") was the third son of David, King of Israel with Maacah, daughter of Talmai, King of Geshur. [ 2] 2 Samuel 14:25 describes him as the handsomest man in the kingdom. [ 3] Absalom eventually rebelled against his father and was killed during the Battle of Ephraim's Wood.
v. t. e. The Assyrian siege of Jerusalem (circa 701 BC) was an aborted siege of Jerusalem, then capital of the Kingdom of Judah, carried out by Sennacherib, king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The siege concluded Sennacharib's campaign in the Levant, in which he attacked the fortified cities and devastated the countryside of Judah in a campaign of ...
Nazirite. In the Hebrew Bible, a nazirite or a nazarite ( Hebrew: נָזִיר Nāzīr) [ 1] is a Jewish [ 2][ 3] man or woman [ 4] who voluntarily took a vow which is described in Numbers 6:1–21. This vow required the nazirite to: Not to become ritually impure by contact with corpses or graves, even those of family members. [ 7]
Warfare represents a special category of biblical violence and is a topic the Bible addresses, directly and indirectly, in four ways: there are verses that support pacifism, and verses that support non-resistance; 4th century theologian Augustine found the basis of just war in the Bible, and preventive war which is sometimes called crusade has also been supported using Bible texts.
The Bible contains many references to slavery, which was a common practice in antiquity. Biblical texts outline sources and the legal status of slaves, economic roles of slavery, types of slavery, and debt slavery, which thoroughly explain the institution of slavery in Israel in antiquity. [ 1]
John Nichols Thom (1799–1838), who had achieved fame and followers as Sir William Courtenay and adopted the claim of Messiah after a period in a mental institute. [ 30] Hong Xiuquan (1 January 1814- 1 June 1864), the leader of the Taiping Rebellion, who believed he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ.