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• Laver

  The laver was a bronze basin placed in the tabernacle between the tent of meeting and the altar of burnt offering. The priests washed their hands and feet in it before entering the tent of meeting or ministering at the altar.

• Exodus 30

  Exodus 30 contains the ordinances for making and using the tabernacle's altar of incense, the half-shekel ransom paid at a census, the bronze laver, the holy anointing oil, and the holy incense.

• Exodus 38

  Exodus 38 records Bezalel's construction of the tabernacle's altar of burnt offering, the bronze laver, and the court, and it includes an inventory tallying the amounts of gold, silver, and bronze used in building the tabernacle.

• Exodus 31

  Exodus 31 is the final chapter of the instructions for building the tabernacle. God appoints Bezalel and Oholiab as craftsmen, commands Israel to keep the Sabbath as a sign of the covenant, and then gives Moses the two tablets of the testimony on Mount Sinai.

• Ark of the Covenant

  The Ark of the Covenant was a gold-overlaid wooden chest made at God's command in the time of Moses. It held the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments and was kept in the Most Holy Place of the tabernacle and later of the temple. It is also known as the "Ark of the Law."

• Ahijah

  Ahijah was a prophet from Shiloh who was active in the last years of Solomon's reign and during the reign of Jeroboam I. He tore his garment into twelve pieces to foretell the division of the kingdom, and he later prophesied the destruction of the house of Jeroboam.

• Temple Tax

  The temple tax was a payment made by adult Israelite men for the upkeep of the sanctuary (the tabernacle and later the temple) and its worship. It originated in the half-shekel regulation of Exodus and appears in the New Testament in Matthew 17.

• Elizaphan

  Elizaphan was appointed chief of the Kohathite clans of the tribe of Levi during the wilderness period after the Exodus. He was the son of Uzziel, and his descendants later formed a Levitical family that is named as a distinct group in the times of David and Hezekiah.

• Psalm 122:1

  Psalm 122:1 is the verse in which a pilgrim declares his gladness upon hearing the invitation, "Let us go into the house of the LORD." It is regarded as a classic expression of delight in worship and is frequently used, for example, as a call to worship.

• Leviticus 23

  Leviticus 23 sets out Israel's appointed feasts in order: the Sabbath, Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the day of the firstfruits sheaf, the feast held fifty days later, and the seventh-month observances of the blowing of trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles.

• Temple Mount

  The Temple Mount is a hill on the eastern side of the Old City of Jerusalem. It was the site of Solomon's Temple and later of the Second Temple, and 2 Chronicles 3:1 calls it "mount Moriah."

• Jeroboam

  Jeroboam was the first king of the northern kingdom of Israel, established by the ten northern tribes when the kingdom divided after Solomon's death. Because he set up golden calves at Bethel and Dan, he became the standard by which the Books of Kings evaluate the later kings of northern Israel.

• Wilderness of Sin and Wilderness of Zin

  In the Old Testament of the New Korean Revised Version, "Sin gwangya" (Wilderness of Sin) is the name of a wilderness. In the original Hebrew, however, the name refers to two distinct places: the Wilderness of Sin (Hebrew *Sin*) near Mount Sinai, where the manna fell, and the Wilderness of Zin (Hebrew *Tsin*) near Kadesh on the southern border of Canaan.

• Jeshua (Levite)

  Jeshua was a leader of the Levites who returned from the Babylonian exile. He oversaw the rebuilding of the temple, and in the time of Nehemiah he helped explain the Law to the people and led a prayer of repentance.

• 2 Kings

  Second Kings is a historical book of the Old Testament that records, in twenty-five chapters, the later history of the divided kingdom, from Elijah's ascent into heaven through the fall of the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah to the release of the captive King Jehoiachin.

• Psalm 30:5

  A verse from Psalm 30 in which the psalmist sings that God's anger lasts only a moment while His favor lasts a lifetime, and that joy comes in the morning after a night of weeping. It is frequently cited in discussions of comfort and restoration in the midst of suffering.

• John 21

  John 21 is the final chapter of the Gospel of John. The risen Jesus appears to his disciples at the Sea of Tiberias, gives them a large catch of fish, and eats breakfast with them. He then asks Peter three times whether he loves him and entrusts his sheep to him, and the chapter closes with the book's concluding words.

• Nehemiah (person)

  Nehemiah was an Old Testament figure who served as cupbearer to the Persian king Artaxerxes and later became governor of Judah. Together with the community that had returned from exile, he rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem and restored order within the community.

• Wise Woman of Tekoa

  The wise woman of Tekoa is an unnamed woman who appears in 2 Samuel 14. At Joab's request, she used a fabricated story to persuade King David, helping to bring the exiled Absalom back to Jerusalem.

• Eglon (City)

  Eglon was a city in the lowland of southern Canaan. In Joshua 10 it joined an alliance of five Amorite kings, was conquered by Joshua, and later became part of the territory of the tribe of Judah.