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Pilate, Roman governor of Judea, questioned Jesus and found no guilt in him, but, pressured by the crowd, released Barabbas and delivered Jesus to be crucified (Matthew 27:24).
Judea is the land where Bethlehem is located, the town where Jesus was born during the time of King Herod. Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and there the Jews sought to kill Jesus (Matthew 2:1).
Galilee is the land of Nazareth and Cana, from where Jesus came to be baptized by John in the Jordan and from where crowds and women followed him (Mark 1:9).
The Jordan is the river in the middle of which Joshua set up twelve stones, where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant had stood. The boundary of the land went down along the river to the Salt Sea (Joshua 4:9).
Isaiah, son of Amoz, was the prophet who had a vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. He sent King Hezekiah the Lord’s answer to the prayer about Sennacherib king of Assyria (2 Kings 19:20).
Abraham, called by God, left his country for Canaan, received the promise that he would be the father of many nations, and fathered Isaac, the son of promise (Genesis 12:1).
Abraham, called by God, left his country for Canaan, received the promise that he would be the father of many nations, and fathered Isaac, the son of promise (Genesis 12:1).
Joseph, a descendant of David and carpenter of Nazareth, was the husband of Mary and raised Jesus; warned in a dream, he fled with them to Egypt (Matthew 1:24).
David, son of Jesse, was a shepherd in Bethlehem when Samuel anointed him; he defeated Goliath, reigned over Israel in Jerusalem, and wrote many of the psalms (1 Samuel 16:13).
Boaz, of the clan of Elimelech, was a relative of Naomi and bought from her the property of Elimelech, Chilion, and Mahlon. Ruth gleaned in his field, and he fathered Obed (Ruth 4:9).
Nahshon was the leader of the tribe of Judah, son of Amminadab, and brother of Aaron’s wife Elisheba. He presented the offering of the tribe of Judah on the first day and fathered Salmon (Numbers 7:12).
Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah, was the father of Nahshon, leader of the tribe in the wilderness, and of Elisheba, wife of Aaron, and is in the genealogy of David (Ruth 4:20).
Hezron was a son of Perez, grandson of Judah, and father of Jerahmeel, Ram, and Caleb. When he was sixty years old he married the daughter of Machir, who bore him Segub, and he died in Caleb Ephrathah (1 Chronicles 2:21).
Judah, fourth son of Jacob and Leah, proposed selling Joseph instead of killing him, fathered Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and received the blessing of the scepter from his father (Genesis 49:10).
Jacob, son of Isaac, bought the birthright from Esau, wrestled with God at Penuel, and received the name Israel; his twelve sons gave rise to the tribes (Genesis 32:28).
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Isaac was the son God promised to Abraham and Sarah in their old age; his father nearly offered him as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah, and Isaac was the father of Esau and Jacob (Genesis 22:2).
Abraham, called by God, left his country for Canaan, received the promise that he would be the father of many nations, and fathered Isaac, the son of promise (Genesis 12:1).
Terah, son of Nahor, left Ur of the Chaldeans for Canaan with his son Abram, his grandson Lot, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, and died in Haran (Genesis 11:31).
Adam, the first man, was formed by God from the dust of the ground and placed in the garden of Eden; he disobeyed with Eve and was driven out of the garden (Genesis 3:17).