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Biblical Weights and Measures
[Bible]Biblical weights and measures are the units of length, weight, volume, and currency that appear in the Bible. They include the cubit, shekel, talent, ephah, and denarius. Converting them precisely into modern values is difficult.
Joshua 18
[Bible]In this chapter the congregation of Israel sets up the tabernacle of the congregation at Shiloh. Joshua then has the land surveyed for the seven tribes that have not yet received an inheritance and begins dividing it by lot. The first lot falls to the tribe of Benjamin, and the chapter records its boundaries and twenty-six cities.
Ada Cecelia Pfautz
[People]Ada Cecelia Pfautz (1899–1987) was the wife of A. W. Tozer, an American pastor and author in the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA). She married Tozer in 1918 and raised six sons and one daughter. After Tozer's death, she married Leonard Odam.
Ahn Ei-sook
[People]Ahn Ei-sook (1908–1997) was a Korean Protestant who was imprisoned for about six years during the Japanese colonial period for refusing Shinto shrine worship. She later served in the United States as the wife of a Baptist pastor and wrote the memoir If I Perish (Jugeumyeon jugeurira).
Isaiah 6
[Bible]Isaiah 6 recounts Isaiah's call: in the year King Uzziah died, Isaiah sees the Lord seated on a throne in the temple, attended by seraphim. He is cleansed and then sent forth as a prophet.
Hebrew Servant
[Bible]In Old Testament law, a Hebrew servant was an Israelite who had been sold into the service of a fellow Israelite because of debt or poverty. The law required that, after six years of service, such a servant go free in the seventh year without payment.
James Zhou Wenmo
[People]James Zhou Wenmo (周文謨, 1752–1801) was a Chinese priest and the first Catholic priest to enter Joseon Korea. He secretly entered Joseon at the end of 1794, ministered there for six years, and was executed at Saenamteo during the Sinyu Persecution of 1801.
Sabbath
[Bible]The Sabbath is the seventh day, appointed by Old Testament law as a day on which people were to cease from work, rest, and keep the day holy to God. It is grounded in both creation and the Exodus, and in Jewish tradition it is observed from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday.
Sabbatical Year
[Bible]The sabbatical year was an institution of Old Testament law under which the land was to rest every seventh year and debts owed by fellow Israelites were to be released. It appears in Leviticus 25, Exodus 23, and Deuteronomy 15.
Ram's Horn Trumpet
[Bible]The ram's horn trumpet, known in Hebrew as the shofar, is a trumpet made from the horn of a ram. It is best known from the account of the fall of Jericho in Joshua 6, in which priests blew it before the Ark of the Covenant.
Stadion
[Bible]The stadion is a Greek unit of distance found in the New Testament, measuring about 185 meters. In Revelation it is used to give the dimensions of the New Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
[Bible]Second Chronicles is the fourteenth of the thirty-nine books of the Protestant Old Testament. Centered on the temple and worship, it records events from the reign of Solomon to the fall of the kingdom of Judah and the decree of the Persian king Cyrus permitting the return from exile.
Daniel 9:24–27
[Bible Verses]The prophecy of the "seventy weeks" delivered to Daniel by the angel Gabriel. It is among the most difficult prophecies in Scripture to interpret. Interpretations diverge sharply among the traditional reading of it as a messianic prophecy, the eschatological reading of dispensationalism, and the historical-critical reading that relates it to events of the Maccabean period.
Genesis 2:7
[Bible Verses]Genesis 2:7 states that God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, so that man became a living being. It is frequently cited in discussions of the creation of humanity, the relationship between body and soul, and the source of life.
Siloam Inscription
[History]The Siloam Inscription is an ancient Hebrew inscription carved into the wall of the water tunnel that connects the Gihon Spring and the Pool of Siloam in Jerusalem. It records the completion of the tunnel and is commonly dated to the reign of King Hezekiah of Judah.
Servant (Bible)
[Bible]In the Bible, a servant is a person bound to serve another. The term can refer to the institution of slavery in the Old Testament, and it is also used in a religious sense for those who serve God and for the servanthood of Jesus Christ.
Numbers
[Bible]Numbers is the fourth book of the Old Testament and part of the Pentateuch. It records the roughly forty-year journey of the people of Israel through the wilderness, from their departure from Mount Sinai to their arrival on the plains of Moab.
Seraphim and Cherubim
[Bible]Seraphim and cherubim are winged heavenly beings in the Old Testament who appear near God's throne and in holy places. The seraphim praise God in Isaiah 6, and the cherubim appear in the Garden of Eden, on the ark of the covenant, in the temple, and in Ezekiel's visions.
Dinah
[People]Dinah was the daughter of Jacob and Leah and the only daughter of Jacob named in the Bible. She is the central figure in the Shechem incident recorded in Genesis 34.
Genesis 17
[Bible]Genesis 17 is the chapter in which God reestablishes His covenant with Abram at the age of ninety-nine. God changes the names of Abram and Sarai to Abraham and Sarah, commands circumcision as the sign of the covenant, and promises that Isaac will be born the following year.