Subject Index

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

Aaron, 34, 120, 250, 345, 489, 492

Abar Nahara (see Beyond the River)

Abel, 492–93

Abiathar, 35, 250

Abraham, 21, 167, 217, 241, 311, 363, 381, 385, 399, 402–3, 434, 444, 516

Adam, 434, 492

Adonijah, 35, 250

Ahab, 202

Ahura Mazda, 224

Akkad, 308

Alexander the Great, 412, 421, 423

aliens, 361

altar, 86, 118, 142, 146, 224, 308

Amaziah, 492

Amel-Marduk (see Evil-Merodach)

Ammon, 326

Amos, 280, 492, 493

Ananias, 100

Anat, 318

angel of the Lord, 251, 322, 329, 483

Anna, 346

apocalyptic, 30, 194, 203–6, 232, 318, 324, 327, 494–99, 525, 530, 539

Arabah, 527

Aristides, 407

armor of God, 328–29

Artaxerxes I, 29, 262, 522

Asa, 274

Ash Wednesday, 370

Ashdod, 412, 413

Asherah, 309

Ashkelon, 412, 413

Assyria, 23, 215, 309, 412, 443–46, 459, 461

Astyages, 23, 25

Athaliah, 304

Atonement, Day of, 118, 253, 258, 268–69

Azel, 524

B

Baal, Baalism, 318, 319, 438, 486–87, 492–93

Babylon, Babylonians, 21–29, 39, 164, 193–94, 197–98, 206, 213–216, 219, 225, 232–36, 241, 244, 246, 259, 304–8, 318, 323–27, 331, 335, 337, 344, 412, 460–61, 468, 523

Bardiya, 27

Baruch, 36, 355

Bashan, 459, 460

Belshazzar, 25, 318

Benjamin (tribe), 447

Benjamin Gate, 527

Bethel, 355, 395–96

Beyond the River (satrapy), 28, 411–12

blessing, 97–98, 101, 126, 130, 139, 141, 143, 147, 150, 153, 157–58, 170, 172, 174, 212, 242, 258, 273, 277, 297, 384–85, 388, 454

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 302

bow, 441

C

Cain, 492–93

Calneh, 308

Cambyses, 26–28, 85, 160, 173, 194

Canaan (man), 421

Canaanite, 529

Canaanite religion, 150, 310, 486–87

Carmel, Mount, 486

Christian and Missionary Alliance, 375, 405–6, 534–35, 538

church growth (see homogeneous unit principle)

cleansing (see holiness)

confession of sin, 187–88, 301

conquest, 239, 241, 345, 384, 527

Corner Gate, 527

cornerstone, 441

covenant, 47, 154, 177, 382, 397, 419, 444, 463, 514, 517–18; Abrahamic, 52, 98, 241–42, 444, 518; Davidic, 52, 243, 518; new, 55, 108, 110, 154, 244, 518; Noahic, 51–52, 517–18; Sinaitic, 91, 98, 108, 109, 111, 122, 124, 132–33, 137, 151, 291–92, 297, 309, 385, 403, 419, 518

creation (see also God, Creator), 51, 525

Croesus, 25

curse, curses, 91, 94, 97–98, 147–49, 153, 170, 174, 294, 385, 468

Cyaxares, 23

Cyprus, 421

Cyrus, 23, 25–26, 86, 106, 194, 262, 318, 323, 344, 426, 512, 522

D

Damascus, 411

Daniel, 21, 227

Darius I, 27–28, 30, 85–86, 106, 117–18, 126, 130, 153, 160, 173, 213, 262, 291, 318, 323, 327, 332, 353, 355, 522

David, 21, 35, 42, 52, 90, 108, 129, 164, 165, 201, 218, 250, 281, 328–29, 345–46, 359, 416–417, 421–22, 431, 439, 488–90, 511, 524

Davidic line, 31, 34, 44–47, 57–60, 67, 88, 160–70, 243, 250, 257–59, 262–64, 268, 326, 328, 335, 338, 341–44, 355, 415–16, 419–29, 440, 448–49, 452, 466–67, 472–75, 481–83, 488, 494, 499, 503, 526

Dead Sea, 526

defilement, 142–43, 152–53, 308, 489–90

deism, 100

dew, 93, 94

Didache, 372

divine council, 249–50, 255, 261–63, 275, 280, 317, 327

divine warrior (see holy war/warrior)

diviners, divination, 439, 490–91

donkey, 417, 423

drought, 94

E

earlier prophets, 41, 88, 178, 354, 359, 362–63, 366, 397

early church, 53, 58

Eastern religions, 312, 369

Ecbatana, 425

Eden, 526

Edom, 326, 460

Egypt, Egyptians, 24, 27, 86, 310, 326, 353, 414–16, 421, 439, 444–46, 459, 528

Ekron, 412

El, 318, 487

Elam, 233

Elijah, 21, 280, 357, 492–93

Elisha, 280, 492–493

Elishah, 421

Elnathan, 29

En-Rimmon, 527

Ephraim (tribe), 420, 426, 444

Erech, 308

Esarhaddon, 198

Esau, 492

eschatology, 42, 45, 49, 57–62, 132–33, 422, 530–31

Euphrates River, 418

Eve, 492

Evil-Merodach, 25

Exile, 21, 24, 54, 120, 164, 174, 177, 190, 193, 206, 215, 219, 231–34, 241, 246, 250, 253, 261–62, 265, 281, 311, 325–26, 330, 346, 353, 362–65, 374, 396, 414, 416, 426, 436, 485, 494, 515

Exodus (event), 52, 162, 235, 245, 327, 346, 384, 389, 414–15, 419, 446, 503, 526

Ezekiel (man), 35–36, 280, 468

Ezra (man), 29, 114, 227, 296, 299

F

faith, 229–30, 328, 331, 450–52, 456, 504

fall of Jerusalem, 21, 36, 55, 91, 119, 225, 300, 354, 357, 381, 419, 500, 507

fasting, 40, 175, 354, 356–58, 364–65, 372–74, 379, 396, 398, 400–401, 507

fatherless, 361, 374, 407

fear of the Lord, 107–8, 111, 112

feasts, 33, 86, 118, 141, 364, 366, 379, 395–97, 400–401

First Gate, 527

Flood, 51

“followership”, 478

forgetting God, 443–44

Francke, August Hermann, 219, 533

fruit of the Spirit, 284, 351

fundamentalism, 428–29

G

Gad, 280

Gath, 411

Gaumata (see Bardiya)

Gaza, 412

Geba, 527

Gedaliah, 357

Generation X, 169

Gentiles (see nations)

Gershom, 34, 489

Gideon, 162

gifts of the Spirit, 284

Gihon, 526

Gilead, 446

God, 46–47; anger of, 176–78, 184–85, 200, 210, 219, 323–24, 380, 395, 453, 474; comfort of, 211–12; Creator, 46, 311, 482, 501–2, 505, 528; discipline/ judgment, 46, 65–66, 100, 148–49, 177, 188–90, 219–20, 273, 294–95, 301, 332, 360, 389, 394, 396, 458, 468, 483, 522, 539; election, 46, 201–2, 252, 254; glory of, 92, 103, 104, 121, 125–26, 136, 228, 236, 506; grace/mercy, 46, 65–66, 184–85, 199–200, 210, 218, 263, 264, 266, 329, 345, 360–61, 390, 444, 453, 485, 489–90, 500, 505–6, 539; jealousy/zeal, 199–200, 209–10, 301, 304, 380, 388–89; presence of, 47, 65, 95, 110, 115, 120, 122–23, 127–29, 137, 178, 210–11, 228, 231–33, 238, 243, 245, 279, 380, 381–82, 390, 443, 455, 484; sovereignty/kingship, 206, 218, 228, 237, 276, 331, 347–48, 399, 415, 427, 484, 526, 532–33, 540

Gog, 162

golden calf, 122, 123

Goliath, 329, 359, 421

Great Awakening, 533

Greece, 30, 412, 415, 421

guilt, 254, 258, 306

H

Habakkuk (man), 280

Hadad, Hadad Rimmon, 486

Hadrach, 411

Hadrian, 407

Ham, 421

Hamath, 411

Hanani, 274

Hananiah, 280

Haran, 23

hardness of heart, 268

Hasmoneans, 261

health and wealth, 99, 517

Heldai, 336–37

Helem, 336

Hen, 336

ḥerem (ban), 413–14, 527

hermeneutics, 15, 22, 48, 50, 51, 65, 99, 113, 267–68, 300–301, 386, 400–401, 422–23

historical study of Scripture, 22

holiness, 66, 143–44, 152, 387, 401–7, 426, 480, 489, 499, 508, 517, 528, 533–38

Holiness movement, 285, 534

holistic ministry, 376–77

Holy of Holies, Holy Place, 269, 292

holy war/warrior, 43, 171, 317–24, 327–30, 333, 409, 414, 416, 418, 421, 423, 442–43, 480, 482, 496, 526, 528, 530–32

homogeneous unit principle, 433

homosexuality, 429

horses, 194–95, 317–24, 440–41, 528

Hosea (man), 280

humility, 348, 429–30, 478

hypocrisy, 371

I

Iddo, 33–34

idolatry, 31, 59, 254, 303–16, 395, 428, 436, 438, 440, 490, 491, 492–94, 499–500, 509–10, 524, 527

impurity (see defilement)

inner-biblical allusion (see intertextuality)

intergenerational churches, 433

intergenerational sin, 176, 181–84, 189–90, 394

intertextuality, 469–73

Isaac, 444

Isaiah (the man), 36, 280

Israel (northern kingdom/tribes), 45, 309, 420, 436, 443–47

Israel, new, 53–54, 64

J

Jacob, 426, 444, 492

Japhethites, 421

Javan, sons of, 421

Jebusites, 527

Jedaiah, 336–37

Jehoahaz, 24

Jehoiachin, 24, 164, 338, 340

Jehoiakim, 24, 164, 340, 355

Jeremiah (man), 36, 202, 260, 280, 355, 381, 468

Jerome, 222

Jerusalem, 32, 221–27, 232–33, 237–38, 252, 254, 282, 380, 386, 394, 398–99, 419, 423–24, 462, 480–85, 490, 496, 500, 521, 524, 527, 530

Jews, 55–56

Jordan River, 460

Joseph (man), 21, 420, 426–27

Joseph (tribe), 42, 443, 452, 455

Joshua (son of Jehozadak), 27, 33, 38, 57, 85–89, 123, 250–52, 255, 257, 261, 263, 265, 274–75, 335–38, 341, 343, 345, 353

Joshua (son of Nun), 241, 329, 346

Josiah (king), 24, 438, 486

Josiah (son of Zephaniah), 336–37

joy, 454–55

Judah (man), 426–27

Judah (southern kingdom), 45, 260, 359, 420

Judah (tribe), 42, 420, 443, 447, 460–61, 481–83, 521

K

Kalu ceremony, 141

Kidron Valley, 523, 526

King, Martin Luther, 302

Kittim (see Cyprus)

Klassen, Jake & Mavis, 405–6

Kohath, 34, 489

L

Laban, 438

Labashi-Marduk, 25

lament, 197, 208–9, 225–26, 458–60

lampstand, 271–76

land, 240, 241

law, 29, 142, 179, 241, 253–54, 291, 296–98, 353, 395, 489–90

leadership, 67, 442, 452, 458, 461–68, 474, 476–78, 502, 504, 512, 514

Lebanon, 446, 459–61

Lent, 370, 373, 508

Levi, Levites, 345, 447, 481, 488–89, 514

lion, 460, 461

Lord Almighty, 88

Lord’s Supper, 157, 265, 429, 474, 501

Luther, Martin, 296, 372–73

M

Maccabean revolt, 21

Marathon, battle of, 28

Marduk, 23, 25–26, 206

maśśaʾ, 41–42, 411, 480, 482

materialism, 101

Medes, 23

Mediterranean Sea, 418, 526

Megiddo, 486

Melchizedek, 263, 268, 345

Messiah, 89, 167–68, 263, 345, 429, 442, 487

Micah (priest), 438

Micah (prophet), 280

Micaiah, 202, 275

Michal, 438

Midas, 153

Miriam, 321

missiology, 402–7, 433, 532–38

Moab, 326

Moravianism, 533–34

Moses, 88, 109, 111, 235, 250, 279, 281, 309, 325, 345, 357, 539

Mot, 318

Mount of Olives, 61, 523

Mount Sinai, 523

Mount Zaphon, 318

Müller, George, 219

N

Nabonidus, 23, 25, 194, 318

Nabopolassar, 23

Nahum, 280

Naomi, 218

Nathan, 59, 108, 280, 488–489

nations, 46–47, 52, 54, 56, 67, 131, 161, 173, 193, 236, 238–39, 242–44, 248, 362–63, 382, 388, 392, 397, 400, 402, 418, 424, 427–28, 449, 458–59, 461, 463, 468, 480–81, 483–84, 490, 494, 496, 500, 522–24, 527, 530, 532–33, 540

Nazirite vow, 356–57

Nebuchadnezzar, 21, 23, 24, 125, 308

Necho II, 24

Negev, 359

Nehemiah (man), 29, 35, 227, 296, 481, 522

Neriglissar, 25

new Jerusalem, 207

Nidintu-Bel, 27

Nile River, 437, 446, 528

Noah, 52

north, land of the, 233, 234

northern kingdom/tribes (see Israel)

O

olive trees, 272–76

oracle (see maśśaʾ )

Orontes, River, 411

orphans (see fatherless)

P

Pasargadae, 224, 425

Passover, 300

Pedaiah, 35, 165

penitence, 45, 48, 101, 150, 174, 176, 178–82, 185–87, 311–12, 325, 345, 356–59, 363, 369–70, 372–73, 388, 394, 398, 454, 484–91, 499–500, 504–8

penitential prayer, 113, 174–76, 180–84, 187–90, 356–58, 363–65, 394, 506–8

Pentecost, 54, 110, 243, 282, 300, 316, 350, 388, 424–25, 448–49, 454, 515, 533–34

Pentecostalism, 285, 533–36

persecution, 220, 332

Persepolis, 425

Pharisees, 21

Philistia, Philistines, 411–13, 426, 428

Phinehas, 492

Phoenicia, Phoenicians, 411, 421

pilgrimage, 398, 528

postmillennialism, 375

prayer, 113, 174, 175, 180–84, 190, 288–89, 357–58, 363–65, 394, 477, 485, 513

preaching (see also Word of God), 112–14, 285–89, 299, 401, 502

premillennialism, 386

priest, high, 249, 251–52, 259, 337–39, 341

priests, priesthood, 242, 250, 253, 257, 260–61, 263, 266, 268, 335, 342–44, 356, 467, 514

priorities, 102, 103

prophecy, false, 280, 439, 491–92, 500; prophecy, prophets, 202, 260–61, 263, 266–67, 275–76, 279, 280–83, 325, 346–47, 356, 358, 422–23, 439, 493, 494

prophetic calling, 234, 235

prophetic liturgy, 439

Purim, 300

Puritanism, 533

Q

Queen Mother, 338, 341

R

Rachel, 438

rains, 93, 437–38

Rauschenbusch, Walter, 375

Rebekah, 492

Red Sea, 418, 527

redaction criticism, 37

Reformation, 296

remembering God, 443–44

remnant, 38, 47, 56, 107, 109, 110–11, 114, 120–21, 128, 340, 354, 381, 384, 387, 397–98, 414, 425–26, 428, 443, 447, 448, 454, 473, 512, 515–17, 525

repentance (see penitence)

restoration (from exile), 47, 55, 88, 243, 325–26, 365, 463

return of Christ (see Second Coming)

revival, 533

Rimmon (see En-Rimmon)

Rodanim, 421

Rome, 327, 330

royal house/line (see Davidic line)

Ryken, Philip, 288

S

sacrifices, 151, 153–54, 395, 401, 513

Sadducees, 21

Samaria (city), 443

Samaria (province), 31, 427

Samaritan, 30, 339

Samson, 21, 359

Samuel, 154, 280–81

Sapphira, 100

Sarah, 516

Satan, 249, 251, 263

Saul, 129, 154, 218, 281, 328, 416, 438

Scripture reading, 299–300

Sea of Galilee, 527

Sea of the Philistines, 418

Second Coming, 244, 327, 499–500, 540; ṣemaḥ (Branch), 33, 57, 58, 250, 253, 256–58, 262, 268–69, 335–43, 349–50, 467

seventy years, 89, 197–99, 217, 353

Shamash, 319

Shealtiel, 35, 88, 164, 165

sheep/shepherd, 34, 42–44, 60, 422, 439–40, 452, 458, 461–78, 511–15

Shelomith, 29

Shem, 516

Shephelah, 359

Sheshbazzar, 26, 106

Shimei, 34, 59, 481, 488

Shinar, land of, 308

Sidon, 412, 421

sign-act, 43, 256, 335, 410, 461–69, 472

signet ring, 164

Simeon, 346

Simpson, A. B., 375, 405, 534–36

sin (iniquity), 244, 311, 509–10

Sin (name of god), 23

Smallman, Steve & Mary, 376

social justice, 45, 66–67, 102, 171, 241, 295, 302–3, 361, 362, 373–77, 395, 397, 400, 401–7, 430, 463, 477–78

Sodom, 402–3

Solomon, 21, 35, 90, 111, 167, 201, 258, 293, 325, 344, 346, 417, 421, 488–89

southern kingdom (see Judah)

Spirit (of God), 122–23, 129, 154, 243, 264, 268, 278, 281–89, 298, 320–21, 350, 362, 485, 488–90, 500

spirituality, 314–16, 369–70

suffering, 429–30

Susa, 425

symbols, 205–6, 216

syncretism, 314–16

Syria, 411

T

tabernacle, tent of meeting, 95, 96, 110, 254, 272, 292

Tabernacles, Feast of, 60, 118, 300, 528

Tamar (Genesis), 427

Tarshish, 421

Teima, 25

temple, Babylonian, 308; biblical theology of, 95–97, 130; destruction, 91, 96, 121, 131, 151, 399; foundation laying, 30, 33, 140–41, 146–50, 156–57, 159–60, 165–66, 170, 171, 276–79, 353, 383; New Testament theology of, 97, 130, 347; rebuilding, 22, 26, 27, 30, 32–33, 39–40, 87–90, 93, 100, 119, 121, 128, 141, 146–47, 149–50, 170, 201, 238, 276, 277, 311, 342, 344, 353; Second, 96, 130, 150, 276; Solomonic, 90, 96, 111, 118–19, 121, 126, 130, 292, 346

ten lost tribes, 447–48

tent peg, 441

Teraphim, 438

thanksgiving, 513

Thermopylae, Battle of, 29

Tobijah, 336, 337

Torah (see law)

Torah ruling, 142–43

Tower of Babel, 308

Tower of Hananel, 527

Trumpets, Feast of, 118

Tyre, 198, 326, 411, 421, 423, 427, 430

U

unclean (see defilement)

unity, 67, 344, 346, 348, 432, 442, 449, 463, 465

Urim and Thummim, 356

Uzziah, 524

V

vengeance, 332

visions, 202–4, 216, 324, 496

W

Wesley, Wesleyanism, 533–36

Westminster Catechism, 389

Whitefield, George 536

widows, 361, 374, 407

wilderness, 52, 110, 118

wind, 234, 317, 320–24, 332, 362–63

witness, 283–84, 286

woe oracle, 467

Word of God, 66, 111–14, 155, 179, 190–91, 263, 267, 282–83, 285, 287, 289, 298–99, 346–47, 351, 367

worship, 66, 103–4, 136, 151, 152, 155, 245–46, 312–16, 370–71, 401–2, 433, 455, 502, 529, 530

X

Xerxes I, 28, 29, 426, 522

Y

Yehud (province), 28, 29, 31, 35, 36, 44, 290, 355, 359, 411–12, 427, 445, 458, 463, 467, 481, 499, 513–14, 522

Z

Zadok, Zadokite priests, 32–35, 59, 88, 120, 250, 254–56, 261, 326, 344, 440, 481, 489, 514

Zedekiah, 24, 260, 524

Zephaniah (priest), 336, 337

Zerubbabel, 27, 29, 31, 33–35, 38, 44, 57, 58, 85–89, 120, 123, 161–67, 172, 234, 250, 262–63, 274–81, 284, 335–38, 341–45, 353, 415, 422, 437, 440, 458, 461, 467, 469, 481, 489, 522

Zinzendorf, Nicholas Ludwig von, 533–36

Zion, 132–33, 237–39, 243, 253, 257–80, 399, 421, 425–27, 430, 484–85