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• Exodus 24:8

  [Bible Verses]

  The verse in which Moses, at Mount Sinai, sprinkles the blood of the sacrifices on the people and declares it "the blood of the covenant," completing the ratification of the covenant between God and Israel. Because Jesus' words instituting the Lord's Supper and the Epistle to the Hebrews take up this expression, these passages are frequently read together.

• Levites

  [Bible]

  The Levites were members of the Israelite tribe descended from Levi, the son of Jacob. Rather than receiving land as an inheritance, they were set apart for the work of the tabernacle and the temple. Among them, the descendants of Aaron became priests.

• Urim and Thummim

  [Bible]

  The Urim and Thummim were objects in the Old Testament that the high priest carried in the breastplate of judgment and used when seeking God's will. Scripture does not describe their appearance or explain how they were used.

• Palm Tree

  [Bible]

  In the Bible, "palm tree" refers to the date palm. It is associated with the joy of the Feast of Tabernacles, the flourishing of the righteous, and the decoration of the temple. In Jesus' entry into Jerusalem and in the heavenly worship of Revelation, it signifies welcome and victory.

• Talmai

  [People]

  Talmai is the name of two men in the Old Testament. One was a descendant of Anak who lived in Hebron; the other was the king of Geshur, who was David's father-in-law and the maternal grandfather of Absalom.

• Conquest of Canaan

  [Bible]

  The conquest of Canaan was Israel's entry into the land of Canaan under Joshua's leadership, when the Israelites crossed the Jordan River and took possession of a number of cities. It is recorded chiefly in Joshua 1–12.

• Gehenna

  [Bible]

  Gehenna is a term derived from the "Valley of Hinnom" beside Jerusalem. In the New Testament it refers to the place where the wicked are punished after the final judgment. The New Korean Revised Version renders it as "hell" (jiok).

• Hephzibah

  [People]

  Hephzibah was the mother of Manasseh, king of Judah. She is mentioned by name only once, in 2 Kings 21:1. Her name is commonly interpreted to mean "my delight is in her."

• Shunem

  [Bible]

  Shunem was a town of the tribe of Issachar in the Jezreel Valley. It is known as the hometown of the Shunammite woman who hosted Elisha and of Abishag, who attended David.

• Hamath

  [Bible]

  Hamath was an ancient city and kingdom on the Orontes River in what is now western Syria. The Old Testament frequently uses it as a reference point for the northern boundary of the land of Israel.

• Hormah

  [Bible]

  Hormah was a town in the Negev, the southern region of Canaan. During the wilderness period, Israel was defeated and driven back as far as this place, and the town was later named for the "utter destruction" Israel brought upon it. It appears in Numbers, Joshua, Judges, and other books.

• Gath-hepher

  [Bible]

  Gath-hepher was a town in the territory of the tribe of Zebulun in southern Galilee. Second Kings 14:25 identifies it as the hometown of the prophet Jonah. It is distinct from Gath, the Philistine city.

• En-gedi

  [Bible]

  En-gedi is a spring and oasis on the western shore of the Dead Sea. It is a biblical site best known as the place where David hid from Saul and spared Saul's life in a cave.

• Jabesh-gilead

  [Bible]

  Jabesh-gilead was an Israelite town in the region of Gilead east of the Jordan River. Saul delivered the town from the Ammonites, and after Saul's death its people recovered and buried his body.

• Jews

  [Bible]

  The term "Jew" originally referred to a member of the tribe of Judah or of the southern kingdom of Judah. After the Babylonian exile it became a name for the people of Israel as a whole, and in the New Testament it frequently appears paired with "Gentile."

• Chuza

  [People]

  Chuza was the steward of Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee. He was the husband of Joanna, one of the women who ministered to Jesus and his company out of their own means, and he is named only once in Scripture, in Luke 8:3.

• Numbers 3

  [Bible]

  Numbers 3 records the genealogy of Aaron's sons and the tribe of Levi. It sets apart the Levites as those given to God in place of Israel's firstborn, assigns each Levite family its camp position and tabernacle duties, and then numbers both the Levites and the firstborn, requiring a redemption price for the difference.

• Numbers 15

  [Bible]

  Numbers 15 contains regulations for the offerings to be observed after entering Canaan, the heave offering of a cake from the first of the dough, the distinction between unintentional and deliberate sin, the punishment of a man who gathered sticks on the Sabbath, and the law concerning fringes on garments.

• Numbers 14

  [Bible]

  In this chapter the congregation of Israel, after hearing the spies' report, murmurs and proposes returning to Egypt. Through Moses' intercession God pardons the people, yet He pronounces that the murmuring generation will wander in the wilderness for forty years and die there.

• Obadiah 1

  [Bible]

  Obadiah 1 constitutes the entire single-chapter Book of Obadiah. It prophesies judgment on Edom, which stood by and plundered when its brother Jacob (Judah) suffered calamity, and foretells the restoration of Zion on the day of the LORD.