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• Deuteronomy 18

  Deuteronomy 18 sets out the portion due to the Levitical priests, forbids the divination and necromancy (calling up the spirits of the dead) practiced by the nations of Canaan, and records God's promise to raise up a prophet like Moses, together with the criteria for distinguishing true prophets from false ones.

• Peace Offering

  The peace offering is an Old Testament sacrifice prescribed in Leviticus 3 and 7. Its fat was burned on the altar, and its meat was shared between the priests and the worshiper. It was offered as an expression of thanksgiving, in fulfillment of a vow, or as a freewill offering.

• Heave Offering

  The heave offering (Korean *geoje*, 擧祭) was, in the Old Testament sacrificial system, a portion taken from a sacrifice or gift and set apart for God. It served chiefly as the share of the priests and Levites.

• Bronze Sea

  The Bronze Sea was a large basin cast in bronze that Solomon placed in the court of the temple in Jerusalem. It rested on twelve bronze oxen and was used by the priests for washing.

• Laver

  The laver was a bronze basin placed in the tabernacle between the tent of meeting and the altar of burnt offering. The priests washed their hands and feet in it before entering the tent of meeting or ministering at the altar.

• Exodus 28

  Exodus 28 records the command to set apart Aaron and his sons as priests and specifies the materials and construction of the holy garments the priests are to wear: the ephod, the breastplate of judgment, the robe, the gold plate, the coat, and the linen breeches.

• Exodus 39

  Exodus 39 recounts the making of the holy garments for Aaron and the priests, including the ephod, the breastplate, the robe, and the gold plate of the mitre, and the bringing of every completed part of the tabernacle to Moses for inspection.

• Malachi 1

  The first chapter of the Book of Malachi, in which God declares that He chose and loved Jacob, rebukes the priests for offering blemished sacrifices, and proclaims that His name will be great among the nations.

• Numbers 6:24–26

  Numbers 6:24–26 is the Aaronic Blessing, which God instructed Aaron and his sons to pronounce over the people of Israel. One of the oldest prayers in the Bible, it is widely used today as a benediction at the close of worship.

• Jeremiah (Person)

  Jeremiah was an Old Testament prophet who ministered from the final years of the Kingdom of Judah into the early period of the Babylonian exile. He warned of the destruction of Jerusalem, prophesied the "new covenant," and is known as "the weeping prophet."

• Sheep Gate

  The Sheep Gate was a gate in the wall of Jerusalem mentioned in the Old Testament Book of Nehemiah and the New Testament Gospel of John. It is thought to have stood near the north side of the Temple, and in the Gospel of John it serves as a reference point for locating the Pool of Bethesda.

• Joel (Prophet)

  Joel was the prophet whose message is preserved in the Old Testament Book of Joel. Scripture identifies him only as "the son of Pethuel." He is known for his account of a locust plague, his call to repentance, and the promise that God would pour out His Spirit.

• Exodus 29

  Exodus 29 sets out the seven-day ordination ceremony by which Aaron and his sons are established as priests, along with the daily burnt offering (the continual burnt offering) of a lamb each morning and evening.

• Eliashib

  Eliashib was high priest in Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah. The book of Nehemiah records that he built the Sheep Gate during the rebuilding of the city walls but later gave Tobiah the Ammonite a chamber in the temple.

• Immer

  Immer is the name of the ancestor of a priestly family in the Old Testament. It appears as the name of the sixteenth of the priestly courses established in the time of David, and Pashur, who struck Jeremiah, is identified as "the son of Immer."

• Leviticus 7

  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 Samuel 22

  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.

• 1 Chronicles 9

  1 Chronicles 9 records the people who returned from the Babylonian exile and settled in Jerusalem, along with lists of the priests, Levites, and gatekeepers, and repeats the genealogy of Saul's family, who lived at Gibeon.

• 2 Chronicles 11

  2 Chronicles 11 recounts how, immediately after the division of the kingdom, Rehoboam heeded the prophet Shemaiah and called off war with northern Israel. He then fortified cities and received the priests and Levites who came from the north, strengthening his kingdom. The chapter also records his family.

• 2 Chronicles 31

  2 Chronicles 31 records how, in the reign of King Hezekiah, the people destroyed idolatrous altars, the king reorganized the service of the priests and Levites, and the firstfruits and tithes the people brought were gathered into storerooms at the temple and distributed.