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• Peace Offering and PropitiationBible

  The peace offering of the Old Testament book of Leviticus and the New Testament presentation of Christ as the offering that deals with sin are distinct biblical concepts. The New Korean Revised Version of the Bible renders both with a single term, although the original-language words behind the two uses differ.

• Wave OfferingBible

  The wave offering was a rite of Old Testament worship in which an offering was presented to the LORD by being waved before Him. The breast of the peace offering, the sheaf of firstfruits, and the two loaves of the Feast of Weeks were among the offerings presented in this way.

• Drink OfferingBible

  The drink offering was an Old Testament offering in which a beverage such as wine was poured out to God, usually alongside the burnt offering or the peace offering. In the New Testament, Paul compared his own devotion and death to a drink offering.

• Old Testament SacrificesBible

  The Old Testament sacrifices were the system, established by the Mosaic Law, through which Israel presented offerings to God at the tabernacle and the temple. The principal sacrifices are the burnt offering, grain offering, peace offering, sin offering, and trespass offering described in Leviticus 1–7.

• Leviticus 3Bible

  Leviticus 3 sets out the procedure for the peace offering, presented from the herd or the flock (cattle, sheep, or goats). It declares that all the fat belongs to the LORD and closes with a perpetual statute forbidding the eating of fat and blood.

• Leviticus 7Bible

  Leviticus 7 sets out the regulations for the guilt offering and the peace offering, the portions given to the priests, and the command not to eat fat or blood. It concludes the priestly sacrificial regulations that begin in chapter 6.

• 1 Kings 8Bible

  1 Kings 8 recounts Solomon's dedication of the completed temple in Jerusalem. He brings in the ark of the covenant and dedicates the house with a prayer of dedication, blessings, peace offerings, and a fourteen-day feast.

• Leviticus 4Bible

  Leviticus 4 sets out the regulations for the sin offering for unintentional violations of the LORD's prohibitions. It prescribes different offerings and different ways of handling the blood for the anointed priest, the whole congregation, a ruler, and one of the common people.

• New MoonBible

  The new moon was an ancient Israelite observance held on the first day of each month, when sacrifices were offered and trumpets were blown.

• Judges 21Bible

  Judges 21, the final chapter of the Book of Judges, records how Israel kept the tribe of Benjamin from being cut off by striking Jabesh-gilead and bringing back four hundred virgins, and then by allowing the Benjamites to seize women during the feast at Shiloh.

• 1 Chronicles 16:34Bible Verses

  A verse from the song of thanksgiving that David appointed to be sung after the Ark of the Covenant was installed in Jerusalem. It confesses God's goodness and everlasting mercy as the grounds for giving thanks. Because it was a recurring refrain in Old Testament worship, it is frequently quoted in thanksgiving services.

• Leviticus 9:22–23Bible Verses

  In this scene Aaron, having completed his first sacrifices as high priest, lifts up his hands and blesses the people; he then blesses them again together with Moses, and the glory of the LORD appears. The passage is frequently cited as a biblical background for the benediction pronounced at the close of worship.

• Exodus 24:8Bible Verses

  The verse in which Moses, at Mount Sinai, sprinkles the blood of the sacrifices on the people and declares it "the blood of the covenant," completing the ratification of the covenant between God and Israel. Because Jesus' words instituting the Lord's Supper and the Epistle to the Hebrews take up this expression, these passages are frequently read together.

• Leviticus 2Bible

  Leviticus 2 sets out the regulations for the grain offering, an offering presented from grain. It covers how to offer fine flour, baked cakes, and the firstfruits of grain, prohibits leaven and honey, and prescribes the salt of the covenant.

• Jephthah's VowBible

  Jephthah's vow was the promise the judge Jephthah made before his battle with the Ammonites: if he returned victorious, he would offer as a burnt offering whoever came out to meet him. The vow led to the offering of his only daughter (Judges 11).

• SolomonPeople

  Solomon was the third king of the united kingdom of ancient Israel and the son of David. He is known as a wise king and as the builder of the Temple in Jerusalem.

• James 2:24Bible Verses

  James 2:24 reads, "Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only." Because it appears to conflict with Paul's teaching of justification by faith alone, it has been a central text in the debate over justification between Protestants and Roman Catholics since the Reformation, as well as within Protestantism itself.

• The Burnt Offering on Mount MoriahBible

  The event recorded in Genesis 22 in which Abraham, at God's command, prepared to offer his son Isaac as a burnt offering on a mountain in the land of Moriah, until God stopped him and provided a ram in Isaac's place.

• High PlaceBible

  A high place is an Old Testament term for a local site of sacrifice, often located on elevated ground; it translates the Hebrew word bamah. In the books of Kings, the high places frequently serve as a criterion for evaluating the faithfulness of the kings.