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• Battle of Qarqar

  [History]

  The Battle of Qarqar was fought in 853 BC at Qarqar, near the Orontes River in Syria, between the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III and a coalition of twelve kings that included Damascus, Hamath, and Israel. Ahab, king of the northern kingdom of Israel, is recorded as a participant.

• Paran

  [Bible]

  Paran is a wilderness region generally thought to have lain in the northeastern Sinai Peninsula. Ishmael grew up there, and after the Exodus Israel encamped there and sent out the twelve spies from it.

• Gad

  [People]

  Gad was the son born to Jacob by Zilpah, Leah's maidservant, and the ancestor of the tribe of Gad, one of the twelve tribes of Israel. He and Asher were full brothers, sharing the same mother.

• Dan (Son of Jacob)

  [People]

  Dan was a son of Jacob by Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant, and the ancestor of the tribe of Dan, one of the twelve tribes of Israel. His name is understood to mean "to judge" or "to vindicate."

• Zebulun

  [People]

  Zebulun was the sixth son of Jacob and Leah and the ancestor of the tribe of Zebulun, one of the twelve tribes of Israel. The tribe's territory is linked to the region of Galilee, where Jesus later carried out his ministry.

• Naphtali

  [People]

  Naphtali was the son of Jacob by Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant, and the ancestor of the tribe of Naphtali, one of the twelve tribes of Israel. The tribe's territory lay in the region of Galilee.

• Simeon (son of Jacob)

  [People]

  The second son of Jacob and Leah and the ancestor of the tribe of Simeon, one of the twelve tribes of Israel. He is known for his role in the Shechem incident and for being held as a hostage in the story of Joseph.

• Susanna

  [People]

  Susanna is a woman named once in Scripture, in Luke 8:3. She was one of the women who accompanied Jesus and the Twelve and ministered to them out of their own means.

• Issachar

  [People]

  Issachar was a son of Jacob and Leah. His name became the name of the tribe of Issachar, one of the twelve tribes of Israel.

• Levi (Son of Jacob)

  [People]

  Levi was the third son of Jacob and Leah and the ancestor of the tribe of Levi, one of the twelve tribes of Israel. Moses and Aaron, as well as the Levites and priests who served in the tabernacle and the temple, were all his descendants.

• Bronze Sea

  [Bible]

  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.

• Genesis 49

  [Bible]

  Genesis 49 is the chapter in which Jacob, shortly before his death, calls his twelve sons together, speaks in poetic form about the future of each, asks to be buried in the cave of Machpelah, and then dies.

• Numbers 1

  [Bible]

  Numbers 1 records how, in the second year after the Exodus, Moses and Aaron numbered the men of the twelve tribes in the wilderness of Sinai who were twenty years old and upward and able to go to war, arriving at a total of 603,550. The tribe of Levi was excluded from the count and given charge of the tabernacle.

• Numbers 7

  [Bible]

  Numbers 7 records how, on the day the tabernacle was set up, the leaders of the twelve tribes of Israel presented wagons and oxen and then, over twelve days, one tribe per day, brought offerings for the dedication of the altar.

• Numbers 2

  [Bible]

  Numbers 2 is the chapter in which, in the wilderness of Sinai, the twelve tribes of Israel are arranged into four camps on the east, south, west, and north around the tent of meeting, and the order of their march is established.

• Numbers 17

  [Bible]

  Numbers 17 is the chapter in which, after Korah's rebellion, Aaron's rod alone among the rods of the twelve tribes buds and bears fruit, showing that God had chosen Aaron and the tribe of Levi for the priestly office.

• Joshua 4

  [Bible]

  Joshua 4 records how, after Israel crossed the Jordan River, twelve men, one chosen from each tribe, carried twelve stones from the middle of the river and set them up at Gilgal as a memorial.

• 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 each tribe, 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.

• Ezekiel 47

  [Bible]

  A chapter in Ezekiel's vision of the new temple in which water flowing from beneath the temple threshold grows into an ever-deepening river that brings life to the land and the sea. The chapter then sets the boundaries of the land to be divided among the twelve tribes of Israel.