Chronology
This lasted for 2,520 years. That was when Jehovah made Jesus, the Messiah, King of God’s Kingdom in heaven.
Seven times
Two inspired books of the Hebrew Scriptures that were apparently one volume in the original Hebrew canon. The Hebrew name means “The Affairs of the Days.”
Books of Chronicles
It was the intimate name used by children for their fathers and combines some of the intimacy of the English word “papa”.
Ab’ba
A descendant of Jacob, whose name was changed to Israel.
Israelite
A measure of distance occurring only once in the original text of the Christian Greek Scriptures at Matthew.
Mile
This many Passovers occurred during Jesus’ earthly ministry
3
(w81 6/15 pg. 31)
A Bible book that basically covers a period of some 330 years between Israel’s conquest of Canaan and the beginning of the monarchy.
Judges
the Greek word psy·kheʹ is used to render the Hebrew word neʹphesh, both are rendered in the NWT to mean this word.
Soul
11 tribes who inhabited the region along the eastern Mediterranean between Egypt and Syria. Immorality, pagan worship, and child sacrifice were widespread. Abraham’s descendants would later possess this land.
Canaanites
In Jesus’ day, You could buy these for “an assarion,” which was the wage a man earned for 45 minutes’ work.
Two sparrows
Paul associates this span of time with the time between the validating of the Abrahamic covenant and the making of the Law covenant.
430 years
The shortest prophetic book of the Hebrew Scriptures. This book contains a proclamation of Jehovah’s judgment against Edom
Obadiah
This Greek word is rendered “torture stake” in the NWT. Primarily denotes an upright stake, or pole.
stau·rosʹ
May refer to inhabitants of the land of Cush in Africa or it may in some instances apply to people residing on the Arabian Peninsula.
Cushite
This Greek currency is today’s equivalent to a 12hr work day
Drachma
Elizabeth was this many months pregnant when the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary.
Six months (Luke 1:26)
One of the so-called general letters because, like First and Second Peter, First John, and Jude, it was not addressed to any specific congregation or person.
James
Literally, the words mean “a mina, a mina, a shekel, and half shekels.”
“MEʹNE, MEʹNE, TEʹKEL and PARʹSIN.”
This people were “the first one of the nations” to launch an unprovoked attack on the Israelites after the Exodus
Amalekites
The ”good for nothing“ slave that buried his master’s talent wasted an opportunity to increase this many years’ wages.
19
The fifth king of the ten-tribe kingdom of Israel. Ruled in Tirzah for only seven days in about 951 B.C.E
Zimri
An inspired book of the Hebrew Scriptures. Virtually nothing is known about the writer’s life. From his references to Judah, Jerusalem, and Jehovah’s house there, it may be inferred that he prophesied in Judah and perhaps resided in Jerusalem. The exact period involved is in question.
Joel
In the Christian Greek Scriptures this Greek word is rendered “congregation”.
ek·kle·siʹa
This people were descendants of Esau. Israel had been commanded not to detest them, “for he is your brother.”
Edomites
While wandering through the wilderness, each greedy Israelite gathered NO LESS than this many units of miraculously provided quail. (2,200 litres)
10 ho’mers