"Job answers: ""Shall we receive good from God and shall we not receive evil?"" Job laments the day of his birth; he would like to die, but even that is denied to him. His three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, console him. The friends do not waver in their belief that Job's suffering is a punishment for sin, for God causes no one to suffer innocently, and they advise him to repent and seek God's mercy. Job responds with scorn: his interlocutors are ""miserable comforters"" (Vulgate ), since a just God would not treat"
"world. Eliphaz, representative of tradition, denies altogether the reality of evil, in agreement with Deut. xxxii. 4. Bildad, on the other hand, does not deny its reality, but holds, as-if he had been the loyal disciple of the old rabbis and Motazilites, that God allows the just to suffer here in order to reward them the more in the future life. Zophar, too, considers evil a reality; with the Ascharites, with whom many rabbis agree, he insists on man's ignorance of the divine will, which finite man ought not to investigate. Elihu is of the same opinion as Eliphaz, but"
"sitting together. The Zohar said that Zelophehad's daughters drew near to Moses in the presence of Eleazar and all the chieftains because they were afraid of Moses' anger at Zelophehad and thought that it might be contained in a public forum. According to the Zohar, Moses presented the case to God instead of deciding it himself out of modesty. A Baraita taught that Zelophehad's daughters were wise, Torah students, and righteous. Another Baraita taught that Zelophehad's daughters were equal in merit, and that is why the order of their names varies in the text. According to the Gemara, they demonstrated"
"Eliphaz Eliphaz ( ""My Elohim is strength"", Standard Hebrew Elifaz, Tiberian Hebrew ʾĔlîp̄az / ʾĔlîp̄āz) was the first-born son of Esau by his wife Adah. He had six sons, from which Omar was the firstborn, and the others were Teman, Zepho, Gatam, Kenaz and finally Amalek, who was born to his concubine Timna. The people of Amalek was the ancestral enemy of the Israelite people (Book of Exodus ; Book of Deuteronomy ). The Midrash relates that when Jacob escaped from Esau and fled to his uncle Laban in Haran, Esau sent Eliphaz to pursue and kill Jacob, his uncle,"
"Issachar, who ""live in peace and comfort and there is no disturber and no evil chance"" under the leadership of a prince called Naḥshon, Eldad dwelled among high mountains near Media and Persia. The Tribe of Zebulon occupies the land extending from the province of Armenia to the River Euphrates. Behind the mountains of Paran the tribe of Reuben faces them. Peace reigns between these two tribes; they war as allies and divide the spoils. They possess the Bible, the Mishnah, the Talmud, and the Haggadah. The Tribe of Ephraim and half of the Tribe of Manasseh dwell in the"
"bore Joseph's coffin, as implied in and The Gemara cited their doing so to support the law that one who is engaged on one religious duty is free from any other. Rabbi Akiva said that they were Mishael and Elzaphan who were occupied with the remains of Nadab and Abihu (as reported in ). Rabbi Isaac argued, however, that if they were those who bore the coffin of Joseph or if they were Mishael and Elzaphan, they would have had time to cleanse themselves before Passover. Rather, Rabbi Isaac identified the men as some who were occupied with the obligation"
"gave Akiva certainty that Zechariah's hopeful prophecy would also find fulfillment. The others then told Akiva that he had comforted them. Reading the words of ""And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron,"" a Midrash taught that in 18 verses, Scripture places Moses and Aaron (the instruments of Israel's deliverance) on an equal footing (reporting that God spoke to both of them alike), and thus there are 18 benedictions in the ""Amidah"". Rabbi Eliezer in the name of Rabbi Jose ben Zimra taught that whenever the Israelites were numbered for a proper purpose, they lost no numbers; but whenever they"
"(Elpalet, Eliphalet); ""comforts"" (Nehemiah); ""heals"" (Rephael); ""conceals"" (Elzaphan, Zephaniah); ""establishes"" (Eliakim, Jehoiakim); ""knows"" (Eliada, Jehoiada); ""remembers"" (Zechariah); ""sees"" (Hazael, Jahaziel); ""hears"" (Elishama, Hoshama); ""answers"" (Anaiah, Ananiah, Janai); ""speaks"" (Amariah); ""is praised"" (Jehaleel); ""is asked"" (Shealtiel); ""comes"" (Eliathah); ""lives"" (Jehiel); ""exalts/uplifts"" (Jeremiah); ""thunders"" (Raamiah; Nehemiah 7:7); ""gladdens"" (Jahdiel, Jehdeiah); ""judges"" (Elishaphat, Jehoshaphat, Shephatiah, Daniel); ""is just"" (Jehozadak, Zedekiah); ""is king"" (Elimelech, Malchiel); ""is lord"" (Bealiah); ""is great"" (Gedaliah); ""is perfect"" (Jotham); ""is high"" (Jehoram); ""is glorious"" (Jochebed); ""is incomparable"" (Michael, literally ""who is like God?"") Besides these distinct names of God other divine names are used, as ""Adoni"" in Adoniram, and"
"which is comparable with the miracles of Jesus in the New Testament. The ""Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges"" notes that the focus of this narrative does not dwell ""on the increase of the bread by a miracle, and we are left to accept the result as either brought about in that way, or by the appetites of the men being satisfied with a small quantity."" Elisha cured the Syrian military commander Naaman of leprosy but punished his own servant Gehazi, who took money from Naaman. Naaman, at first reluctant, obeyed Elisha, and washed seven times in the River Jordan."
"Moses, at God's bidding, instructed the Israelites that the plea of the tribal leaders was just and that Zelophehad's daughters could marry anyone they wished, but only among the men of the tribe of Manasseh. Zelophehad's daughters did as God had commanded in the instructions conveyed to Moses, and each married a son of an uncle. When the Israelites entered the land, Zelophehad's daughters appeared before Eleazer the priest, Joshua (who by then had assumed leadership from Moses), and the chieftains, reminding them that God had commanded Moses to grant them a portion among their kinsmen, and Zelophehad's daughters received"
"Ephah Ephah (, ""‘Êp̄āh"") was one of Midian's five sons as listed in the Hebrew Bible. Midian, a son of Abraham, was the father of Ephah, Epher, Enoch, Abida, and Eldaah. These five were the progenitors of the Midianites. The name of three persons in the Old Testament, two men and one woman. ""(1) The son of Midian, descended from Abraham by his wife Keturah (Genesis 25:4 ; 1 Chronicles 1:33), mentioned again in Isaiah 60:6 as a transporter of gold and frankincense from Sheba, who shall thus bring enlargement to Judah and praise to Yahweh. According to Fried[rich] Delitzsch,"
"Zephon (angel) In the Holy Bible, Zepho, written צפו in Hebrew was a son of Eliphaz (Esau's eldest son). According to the book of Genesis, his brothers were Omar, Teman, Gatam, Kenaz and Amalek. He is mentioned in Genesis 36:11. According to the legend quoted in Jossipon, he was captured by the military forces of Joseph and imprisoned, later serving as a general for Kittim. According to this account, he became a Latin King in Latium which was the area where Rome was to be founded later along the Tiber river. King Zepho son of Eliphaz was called Janus Saturnus"
"by the archangels Gabriel and Michael, who brought him back to Zuqualla. Some manuscripts recount a visit to heaven, where Gabra Manfas Qeddus was kissed by the Holy Trinity. While he was still on his way back from heaven, three other saints arrived in Kabd to visit him -- Samuel of Waldebba, Anbas of Hazalo, and Benyam of lower Begemder—who were all accompanied by lions. As soon as the lions and leopards of Gebre Menfes Kidus noticed their fellow creatures, though, they devoured them. Nothing was left of them when Menfes Kidus eventually arrived on the scene. When Gebre ordered"
"that he was not satisfied and expected more rain; it then began to pour. He explained that he wanted a calm rain, at which point the rain calmed to a normal rain. Mishnah Berakot 5:5 tells of Hanina ben Dosa, who in the generation following Jesus cured Gamaliel's son by prayer (compare with Matthew 8: 5-13). A later story (In the Babylonian Talmud, Berakot 33a) tells of a lizard that used to injure passers-by. Hanina ben Dosa came and put his heel over the hole; the lizard bit him and died. Such men were respected for their relationship with God"
"Zilpah In the Book of Genesis, Zilpah (זִלְפָּה ""meaning uncertain,"" Standard Hebrew ""Zilpa"", Tiberian Hebrew ""Zilpāh"") was Leah's handmaid, presumed slave, whom Leah gave to Jacob ""to wife"" to bear him children (). Zilpah gave birth to two sons, whom Leah claimed as her own and named Gad and Asher (). Zilpah is given to Leah as a handmaid by Leah's father, Laban, upon Leah's marriage to Jacob (see , ). According to the early rabbinical commentary Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer, Zilpah and Bilhah, the handmaids of Leah and Rachel, respectively, were actually younger daughters of Laban. Zilpah also figures in"
"gave her handmaid Zilpah to Jacob in marriage so that Leah could raise more children through her. Zilpah gave birth to Gad and Asher. Afterwards, Leah became fertile again and gave birth to Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah, Jacob's first and only daughter. God remembered Rachel, who gave birth to Joseph and Benjamin. If pregnancies of different marriages overlapped, the first twelve births (all the sons except Benjamin, and the daughter Dinah) could have occurred within seven years. That is one obvious, but not universally held, interpretation of . After Joseph was born, Jacob decided to return home to his parents."
"came to Jerusalem. () For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying: 'The good LORD pardon ...' () And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced. So there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of Solomon the son"
"soiled themselves by the commission of some transgression. God reassured Moses that he need not fear, for the Israelites had shown themselves perfectly righteous. The Midrash taught that there was not a mighty man in the world more difficult to overcome than Og, as says, ""only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim.""The Midrash told that Og had been the only survivor of the strong men whom Amraphel and his colleagues had slain, as may be inferred from which reports that Amraphel ""smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim,"" and one may read to indicate that Og lived"
"Eleazar ha-Kappar Eleazar ha-Kappar (, or אליעזר בן הקפר , read as ""Eliezer ben ha-Kappar"", or אלעזר בן הקפר, read as ""Eleazar ha-Kappar"") was a Jewish Tanna sage of the fifth and last generation of the Tannaim era. He was a colleague of Judah haNasi, and was in the company of him occasionally. He spent most of his life at ancient Katzrin. The Mishnah cites him only once, in Pirkei Avot 4:21, where he states that, ""Jealousy, lust, and honor remove a man from the world"". Despite the infrequency of his citations in the Mishnah, one can learn a lot"
"Eliezer was able to relieve the water and food shortages faced by the Jews of Safed during World War I as a result of another encounter with a Turkish official. This time, a Turkish pasha came to the city riding a white horse and dressed in a flashy uniform, with a retinue of Turkish soldiers. When the Saba Kadisha came out to greet him, the pasha was impressed by the rabbi's distinguished appearance, and asked him for a blessing. ""Only the humble can receive blessings,"" the rabbi replied. ""I will bless you after you come down from your horse."" The"
"represented as half-sisters of Leah and Rachel by different mothers. Zilpah In the Book of Genesis, Zilpah (זִלְפָּה ""meaning uncertain,"" Standard Hebrew ""Zilpa"", Tiberian Hebrew ""Zilpāh"") was Leah's handmaid, presumed slave, whom Leah gave to Jacob ""to wife"" to bear him children (). Zilpah gave birth to two sons, whom Leah claimed as her own and named Gad and Asher (). Zilpah is given to Leah as a handmaid by Leah's father, Laban, upon Leah's marriage to Jacob (see , ). According to the early rabbinical commentary Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer, Zilpah and Bilhah, the handmaids of Leah and Rachel, respectively,"
"Judge"". The judge, thinking that Rabbi Eliezer was speaking about him, released him, while Rabbi Eliezer understood by ""judge"" God, justifying the judgment of God which had brought this trial upon him. That he should be suspected of apostasy grieved him sorely, and though some of his pupils tried to comfort him, he remained for some time inconsolable. At last he remembered that once, while at Sepphoris, he had met a Christian who communicated to him a singular halakhah in the name of Ben Pandera (Jesus), that he had approved of the halakhah and had really enjoyed hearing it, and,"
"who was his Rabbi also. When they met, Jacob implored Eliphaz not to kill him, but Eliphaz challenged that he had his father's instructions to fulfill. Jacob gave everything he had with him to Eliphaz and said, ”Take what I have, for a poor man is counted as dead."" Eliphaz was satisfied and left his uncle and rabbi poor, but still alive: (Rashi to Book of Genesis ) According to Louis Ginzburg's Legends of the Jews: Eliphaz was a prophet Eliphaz Eliphaz ( ""My Elohim is strength"", Standard Hebrew Elifaz, Tiberian Hebrew ʾĔlîp̄az / ʾĔlîp̄āz) was the first-born son of"
"Rabbi Akiva taught that because Aaron's cousins Mishael and Elzaphan attended to the remains of Nadab and Abihu (as reported in ), they became the ""certain men"" who reported ""were unclean by the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover."" But Rabbi Isaac replied that Mishael and Elzaphan could have cleansed themselves before the Passover. The Tosefta found in the account of that Mishael and Elzaphan ""carried them in their tunics out of the camp"" that even when God is angry at the righteous, God is mindful of their honor. And the Tosefta concluded"
"Gad (son of Jacob) Gad () was, according to the Book of Genesis, the first son of Jacob and Zilpah, the seventh of Jacob overall, and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Gad. However some Biblical scholars view this as postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation. The text of the Book of Genesis implies that the name of ""Gad"" means ""luck""/""fortunate"", in Hebrew. The Biblical account shows Zilpah's status as a handmaid change to an actual wife of Jacob (Genesis 30:9,11). Her handmaid status is regarded"
"inferior person cannot ask a greater person to wait, while in God allowed it. The Tosefta taught that God rewarded measure for measure Abraham's good deeds of hospitality in with benefits for Abraham's descendants the Israelites. The Gemara identified the ""three men"" in as the angels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. Michael came to tell Sarah of Isaac's birth, Raphael came to heal Abraham, and Gabriel came to destroy Sodom. Noting that reports that ""the two angels came to Sodom,"" the Gemara explained that Michael accompanied Gabriel to rescue Lot. The Gemara cited the use of the singular ""He"" in where"
"Jerusalem ""Salem."" The Rabbis said that Melchizedek instructed Abraham in the Torah. Rabbi Eleazar said that Melchizedek's school was one of three places where the Holy Spirit manifested itself. Rabbi Judah said in Rabbi Nehorai's name that Melchizedek's blessing yielded prosperity for Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Ephraim Miksha'ah the disciple of Rabbi Meir said in the latter's name that Tamar descended from Melchizedek. Rabbi Hana bar Bizna citing Rabbi Simeon Hasida (or others say Rabbi Berekiah in the name of Rabbi Isaac) identified Melchizedek as one of the four craftsmen of whom Zechariah wrote in The Gemara taught that David"
"Egyptians and Kushites, which the Bible attributes to divine intervention, and Asa's forces collected a large volume of war spoils. Asa's forces pursued the enemy stragglers as far as the coastal city of Gerar, where they halted due to exhaustion. The result of the battle created peace between Judah and Egypt until the time of Josiah some centuries later, when the latter would again make encroachments in the region. Battle of Zephath The Battle of Zephath, according to the Bible, occurred during the dates of 911-870 BCE, in the reign of King Asa of Judah. It was fought at the"
"and it emphasizes that pregnancy is an act of God."" Rachel became jealous of Leah and gave Jacob her maidservant, Bilhah, to be a surrogate mother for her. Bilhah gave birth to two sons that Rachel named and raised (Dan and Naphtali). Leah responds by offering her handmaid Zilpah to Jacob, and names and raises the two sons (Gad and Asher) that Zilpah bears. According to some commentaries, Bilhah and Zilpah are actually half-sisters of Leah and Rachel. After Leah conceived again, Rachel was finally blessed with a son, Joseph, who would become Jacob's favorite child. Rachel's son Joseph was"
"as an adult. Many of the characters in ""The Arm of the Starfish"" are named after Biblical or religious figures. The surname of the duplicitous Dr. Eliphaz Ball is initially misunderstood by Adam as Baal, a name given to a number of deities considered ""false gods"" by the Hebrews in ancient times. The name ""Eliphaz"" recalls the name of one of the comforters of Job; the Biblical Eliphaz believed that the righteous and just did not suffer, but that secret sins might be punished by God—a belief stated at the end of the Book of Job to be wrong. Canon"
"And We left his (memory) for posterity."" As-Saaffat 127–128 In the Quran, God praises Elijah in two places: Numerous commentators, including Abdullah Yusuf Ali, have offered commentary on VI: 85 saying that Elijah, Zechariah, John the Baptist and Jesus were all spiritually connected. Abdullah Yusuf Ali says, ""The third group consists not of men of action, but Preachers of Truth, who led solitary lives. Their epithet is: ""the Righteous."" They form a connected group round Jesus. Zachariah was the father of John the Baptist, who is referenced as ""Elias, which was for to come"" (Matt 11:14); and Elias is said"
"settled east of the Jordan built a large altar on its banks as ""a witness"" between them and the other tribes (, , et seq.). The Jordan was crossed by Elijah and Elisha on dry ground (, ). The prophet and wonder-worker Elisha performed two miracles at the Jordan: he healed Naaman's leprosy by having him bathe in its waters (), and he made an axe head lost by one of the ""children of the prophets"" float, by throwing a piece of wood into the water (). The New Testament states that John the Baptist baptised unto repentance in the"
"captain (... so Pseudo-Epiphanius...). According to the Talmud, Obadiah is said to have been a convert to Judaism from Edom, a descendant of Eliphaz, the friend of Job. He is identified with the Obadiah who was the servant of Ahab, and it is said that he was chosen to prophesy against Edom because he was himself an Edomite. Moreover, having lived with two such godless persons as Ahab and Jezebel without learning to act as they did, he seemed the most suitable person to prophesy against Esau (Edom). Obadiah is supposed to have received the gift of prophecy for having"