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• Mount Tabor

  [Bible]

  Mount Tabor is a mountain in the Galilee region of northern Israel, rising northeast of the Jezreel Valley. In the Old Testament it appears as the battleground of Deborah and Barak, and church tradition has long identified it as the Mount of Transfiguration.

• Joshua 20

  [Bible]

  Joshua 20 is the chapter in which, at the Lord's command, six cities of refuge are designated for those who have killed someone by accident. It also records the procedure for seeking refuge and how long the fugitive must remain there.

• Nehemiah 7

  [Bible]

  Nehemiah 7 describes how, after the wall is completed, Nehemiah arranges for the guarding of Jerusalem and finds the register (genealogical record) of those who first returned from Babylon, which the chapter then reproduces.

• Manuscript

  [Bible]

  A manuscript is a book or document copied by hand from an original. None of the original documents of the Bible survive, and modern Bibles are translated from texts established by comparing manuscripts from many periods.

• Numbers 9

  [Bible]

  Numbers 9 records the Passover kept in the wilderness of Sinai in the second year after the Exodus, the provision for a Passover in the second month for those who were unclean because of a dead body or away on a long journey, and Israel's practice of encamping and setting out according to the cloud and fire over the tabernacle.

• 1 Chronicles 24

  [Bible]

  1 Chronicles 24 records how David divided the priests descended from Aaron by lot into twenty-four courses (divisions that served in rotation) and also assigned the remaining Levite families by lot.

• 1 Chronicles 28

  [Bible]

  1 Chronicles 28 is the chapter in which David assembles the leaders of Israel in Jerusalem, announces that Solomon will build the temple, and gives Solomon the plans for the temple along with a solemn charge.

• 1 Chronicles 16:34

  [Bible 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

  [Bible]

  Leviticus is the third book of the Old Testament and the third book of the Pentateuch. It contains regulations concerning sacrifices, the priesthood, laws of purity, and holy living, and consists of 27 chapters.

• Shiloh

  [Bible]

  Shiloh was a town in the central hill country of Israel. From the time of Joshua until the early days of Samuel, the tabernacle and the ark of the covenant remained there, making it the center of Israel's worship.

• Amen

  [Bible]

  Amen is a Hebrew word meaning "truly, it is so" or "so be it." In the Bible it serves as a response of assent to prayer, praise, and proclamation, and the church today continues to use it widely as a response in prayer and worship.

• Rehabiah

  [People]

  Rehabiah was the only son of Eliezer, the son of Moses, and appears in the Levitical genealogies of 1 Chronicles. The text records that his descendants were very numerous.

• Shebuel

  [People]

  Shebuel was a Levite in the time of David and the chief among the descendants of Gershom, the son of Moses. First Chronicles records him as the officer in charge of the temple treasuries.

• Numbers 5

  [Bible]

  Numbers 5 contains the ordinance for putting the unclean out of the camp, the ordinance for confessing and making restitution for wrongs done to another person, and the "law of jealousy," a procedure carried out before the priest when a husband suspects his wife of adultery.

• Numbers 19

  [Bible]

  A chapter of Numbers containing the ordinance for making the "water of separation" from the ashes of a burned red heifer and for purifying, over seven days, a person made unclean by contact with a dead body.

• Joshua 22

  [Bible]

  Joshua 22 recounts how the tribes of Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, whose inheritance lay east of the Jordan, return home after the wars of conquest. A great altar they build by the Jordan brings Israel to the brink of civil war, but the conflict ends when the misunderstanding is resolved through dialogue.

• Meshelemiah

  [People]

  Meshelemiah was a Levitical temple gatekeeper of the Korahite line in the time of David, the son of Kore and the father of Zechariah. He appears in 1 Chronicles 26, where verse 14 records his name as "Shelemiah."

• 1 Chronicles 27

  [Bible]

  1 Chronicles 27 is a register of the military and administrative organization of David's kingdom. It lists, in turn, the commanders of the twelve army divisions that served in monthly rotation, the leaders of the tribes, the stewards of the king's property, and the king's closest officials.

• 1 Chronicles 25

  [Bible]

  1 Chronicles 25 records how David appointed 288 singers for the temple from among the descendants of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun and divided them by lot into twenty-four divisions of twelve each.

• 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).