1 KINGS 6:1: "In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the temple of the Lord."

Jezebel was a Phoenician princess who convinced her husband, King Ahab of Israel, to abandon the worship of Yahweh and instead worship Baal and Asherah. Jezebel persecuted the prophets of Yahweh and fabricated evidence of blasphemy against an innocent landowner who refused to sell his property to Ahab, causing the landowner to be executed. For these transgressions against the God of Israel, Jezebel met a gruesome death. She was thrown out of a window by members of her own retinue, and her corpse was eaten by dogs.

ECCLESIASTES 12:13: "Fear God and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man."

ACTS 2:1-4: "When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them."

Zipporah was a Midianite woman who became the wife of Moses and bore him two sons.

EXODUS 7: 14-17: "Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Pharaoh's heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go. Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he goes out to the river. Confront him on the bank of the Nile, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake. Then say to him, 'The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to say to you: Let my people go, so that they may worship me in the wilderness. But until now you have not listened. This is what the Lord says: By this you will know that I am the Lord: With the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will be changed into blood.'"

When the queen of Sheba heard of Solomon's wisdom, she came to Jerusalem to test him. After many hard questions, all of which Solomon answered, she left satisfied. Most scholars agree that Sheba was the South Arabian kingdom of Saba, centered around the oasis of Marib, in present-day Yemen.

GENESIS 32:28: "Then the man said, 'Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.'"

GENESIS 10:8-9: "Cush was the father of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; that is why it is said, 'Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.'"

2 SAMUEL 14:25-26: "In all Israel there was not a man so highly praised for his handsome appearance as Absalom. From the top of his head to the sole of his foot there was no blemish in him. Whenever he cut the hair of his head--he used to cut his hair once a year because it became too heavy for him--he would weigh it, and its weight was two hundred shekels by the royal standard."