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Leviticus 14
[Bible]Leviticus 14 sets out the ritual for cleansing a person healed of leprosy (a serious skin disease) and restoring that person to the community, along with the regulations for inspecting and dealing with a plague that appears in a house.
Leviticus 22
[Bible]Leviticus 22 contains the purity regulations that priests must observe when eating the holy things (sacred objects and food dedicated to God), together with the requirement that offerings presented to God be without blemish.
Numbers 26
[Bible]Numbers 26 records the second census of Israel, taken on the plains of Moab after the plague at Baal-peor. It gives the totals by tribe (601,730 in all), the principles for dividing the land, and the census of the Levites, and it notes that of the wilderness generation only Caleb and Joshua remained.
Joshua 14
[Bible]Joshua 14 opens the distribution of the land west of the Jordan. It sets out the principle by which Eleazar and Joshua divide the land by lot among the nine and a half tribes. It also records how Caleb, at eighty-five, claims the hill country promised to him and receives Hebron as his inheritance.
1 Samuel 22
[Bible]1 Samuel 22 records how David, having fled from Saul, gathers a band of followers at the cave of Adullam, and how the priests of Nob, who had helped David, are killed at Saul's command by Doeg the Edomite.
Silk Letter of Hwang Sa-yeong
[History]The Silk Letter of Hwang Sa-yeong is a secret letter that the Catholic believer Hwang Sa-yeong wrote on white silk during the Sinyu Persecution of 1801. It describes the course of the persecution and proposes remedies. It was intended for Bishop Gouvea in Beijing but was discovered before delivery, and its discovery intensified the suppression of Catholicism in Joseon Korea.
Augustinians
[History]The Augustinians are a Catholic mendicant order that follows the Rule of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. The order was formed in 1256, when several groups of hermits were united into a single body. It is also known as the order to which Martin Luther belonged as a friar before the Reformation.
Cathars
[History]The Cathars were a dualist Christian sect that spread through southern France and northern Italy in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. They are also called Albigensians, after the southern French city of Albi. The Catholic Church condemned them as heretics and suppressed them through a crusade and the Inquisition.
Prophetic Office of Christ
[Doctrine & Theology]The prophetic office of Christ is the office by which Jesus Christ reveals and makes known to humanity the will of God and the way of salvation. Together with his priestly and kingly offices, it constitutes the threefold office (munus triplex) of Christ.
Isaiah 24
[Bible]Isaiah 24 is a prophecy depicting the LORD judging the whole earth and laying it waste, and then reigning as King on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem. It is the first chapter of the unit comprising Isaiah 24–27.
Jeremiah 20
[Bible]Jeremiah 20 recounts how Pashur, the official in charge of the temple, struck Jeremiah and put him in the stocks. It also records the complaint and confession of trust that Jeremiah poured out to God amid his suffering, followed by his lament cursing the day of his birth.
Jeremiah 19
[Bible]Jeremiah 19 is the chapter in which Jeremiah buys a potter's earthen bottle and breaks it in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, proclaiming that Jerusalem will be destroyed beyond repair because of its idolatry and child sacrifice.
Amos 8
[Bible]Amos 8 announces the "end" of the northern kingdom of Israel through the vision of a basket of summer fruit, indicts those who cheat the poor, and foretells a day of judgment when the sun goes down at noon, along with a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
Buzi
[People]Buzi was the father of the prophet Ezekiel, an Old Testament figure named only once, in Ezekiel 1:3. He is understood to have belonged to a priestly family.
Zebadiah (son of Ishmael)
[People]Zebadiah, the son of Ishmael and ruler of the house of Judah, lived during the reign of King Jehoshaphat of Judah. When the king established a judicial system in Jerusalem, Zebadiah was placed over "all the king's matters" (2 Chronicles 19:11).
Priestly Divisions
[Bible]The priestly divisions were a system, described in 1 Chronicles 24, in which David divided the priests descended from Aaron into twenty-four groups that took turns performing the temple duties. The system reappears in the Gospel of Luke as the "course of Abia" (the division of Abijah), to which Zacharias belonged.
Exodus 19:5–6
[Bible Verses]Exodus 19:5–6 is the passage in which God promises Israel, newly arrived at Mount Sinai, that if they obey his voice and keep his covenant, they will be his "peculiar treasure," "a kingdom of priests," and "an holy nation." As the background to 1 Peter 2:9, it is frequently cited in discussions of the priesthood of all believers and of ecclesiology.
Hosea 5
[Bible]Hosea 5 summons the priests, the house of Israel, and the house of the king and pronounces judgment on northern Israel (Ephraim) and southern Judah. It rebukes their reliance on Assyria and closes with God's declaration that He will wait until the people acknowledge their offense and seek Him.
Malachi 2
[Bible]Malachi 2 rebukes the priests for breaking the covenant made with Levi and reproves the people for marrying women who serve foreign gods and for dealing treacherously with the wives of their youth.
Numbers 18
[Bible]Numbers 18 distinguishes the duties of the priests from those of the Levites. It establishes the portion the priests are to receive, the tithe given to the Levites, and the "tithe of the tithe" that the Levites in turn offer.