City

• Sodom

  (Old Testament) an ancient city near the Dead Sea that (along with Gomorrah) was destroyed...

• Gomorrah

  (Old Testament) an ancient city near the Dead Sea that (along with Sodom) was destroyed...

Patriarch

• Jacob

  (Old Testament) son of Isaac; brother of Esau; father of the twelve patriarchs of Israel;...

• Simeon

  (Old Testament) the 2nd son of Jacob and one of the 12 patriarchs of Israel.

Sacred Text

• Paralipomenon

  (Old Testament) an obsolete name for the Old Testament books of I Chronicles and II...

• Apocrypha

  14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted...

Also contains

• Hebrews

  The ethnic group claiming descent from Abraham and Isaac (especially from Isaac's son Jacob);...

• Uriah

  (Old Testament) the husband of Bathsheba and a soldier who was sent to die in battle so that...

• Michael

  (Old Testament) the guardian archangel of the Jews.

• manna from heaven

  (Old Testament) food that God gave the Israelites during the Exodus.

• fire and brimstone

  (Old Testament) God's means of destroying sinners; "his sermons were full of...

• stacte

  (Old Testament) one of several sweet-smelling spices used in incense.

• Fall of Man

  (Judeo-Christian mythology) when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge...

• golden calf

  (Old Testament) an idol made by Aaron for the Israelites to worship; destroyed by Moses;...

• burning bush

  (Old Testament) the bush that burned without being consumed and from which God spoke...

• laver

  (Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual...