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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.
Sending of the Seventy
[Bible]The Sending of the Seventy is an event in which Jesus appointed seventy others, apart from the Twelve, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every town he intended to visit. It is recorded only in Luke 10.
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 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.
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.
Ezekiel 48
[Bible]Ezekiel 48 is the final chapter of the Book of Ezekiel. It divides the restored land among the twelve tribes of Israel in long east-west strips, places the sanctuary and the city in their midst, and closes with the promise that the city will be named "Jehovah-shammah" ("The LORD is there").
Mark 5
[Bible]Mark 5 is the chapter in which Jesus heals a demon-possessed man called "Legion" in the country of the Gerasenes and, after returning across the sea, heals a woman who had suffered from an issue of blood for twelve years and raises the daughter of Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue.
Mark 6
[Bible]Mark 6 is the chapter of the Gospel of Mark that recounts Jesus' rejection in his hometown, the sending out of the Twelve, the death of John the Baptist, the feeding of the five thousand, Jesus' walking on the water, and the healing of the sick at Gennesaret.
Luke 2
[Bible]Luke 2 records the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, the visit of the shepherds, the encounter with Simeon and Anna in the temple, and the twelve-year-old Jesus questioning and answering the teachers in the temple.
Puvah
[People]Puvah was the second son of Issachar and a grandson of Jacob. He was the ancestor of the Punite family within the tribe of Issachar, one of the twelve tribes of Israel, and he appears only in genealogies.
Latter Prophets
[Bible]The Latter Prophets (Hebrew *Nevi'im Aharonim*) are the second half of the Prophets (Nevi'im), the second division of the Hebrew Bible. The term refers to Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve Minor Prophets, books compiled chiefly from the messages delivered by the prophets.
Genesis 35
[Bible]In this chapter Jacob puts away the foreign idols in his household, goes up to Bethel, builds an altar, and is again given the name Israel. Rachel dies giving birth to Benjamin, and the chapter continues with a list of Jacob's twelve sons and closes with the death of Isaac.
Deuteronomy 27
[Bible]Deuteronomy 27 records Moses' instructions that, after entering Canaan, Israel is to set up on Mount Ebal stones inscribed with the law, together with an altar. It then directs six tribes to stand on Mount Gerizim and six on Mount Ebal, and commands the people to answer "Amen" to each of twelve curses proclaimed by the Levites.
Judges 19
[Bible]Judges 19 tells of a Levite who, while returning from Bethlehem with his concubine, stops in Gibeah, a town of the tribe of Benjamin. There a mob assaults the concubine, and she dies. The Levite then divides her body into twelve pieces and sends them throughout all the territory of Israel.