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• Thousand Burnt Offerings

  The "thousand burnt offerings" (Korean ilcheon beonje, 一千燔祭) takes its name from the thousand burnt offerings that Solomon offered at Gibeon (1 Kings 3:4). In Korean churches, the term refers to a devotional practice of praying and giving offerings on a thousand occasions or over a thousand days.

• Offertory

  The offertory is the part of a worship service in which offerings and gifts are presented to God, or the act of presenting them. In Korean churches it is often called "offering time."

• Altar of Burnt Offering

  The altar of burnt offering stood in the courtyard of the tabernacle and of the Temple in Jerusalem, and burnt offerings and other animal sacrifices were burned on it. Because it was overlaid with bronze, it is also called the "bronze altar."

• Hosea 6:6

  A declaration that God desires steadfast love rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. Jesus quoted the verse twice in disputes with the Pharisees, and it is a key text on the relationship between worship and life and between ritual and love.

• Peace Offering

  The peace offering is an Old Testament sacrifice prescribed in Leviticus 3 and 7. Its fat was burned on the altar, and its meat was shared between the priests and the worshiper. It was offered as an expression of thanksgiving, in fulfillment of a vow, or as a freewill offering.

• Trespass Offering

  The trespass offering was one of the Old Testament sacrifices. Through the offering of a ram, it made atonement for sins that caused loss with respect to holy things or a neighbor's property, and it required the offender to repay the original value plus one-fifth.

• Genesis 4

  Genesis 4 recounts the offerings of Cain and Abel, the two sons of Adam and Eve; the first murder; Cain's punishment and descendants; and the birth of Seth. The chapter contains 26 verses.

• Numbers 29

  Numbers 29 is a legal text that prescribes the kinds and numbers of offerings for the feasts of the seventh month: the day of blowing the trumpets (the first day), the Day of Atonement (the tenth day), the Feast of Tabernacles (seven days beginning on the fifteenth), and the solemn assembly on the eighth day.

• Numbers 15

  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.

• Building Fund Offering

  A building fund offering is an offering collected separately from general offerings to pay for constructing, purchasing, or renovating church buildings such as sanctuaries and education buildings.

• Exodus 36

  Exodus 36 records how the people's freewill offerings exceeded what was needed, so that Moses ordered them to stop bringing more, and how Bezalel, Oholiab, and the other workers made the Tabernacle's curtains, coverings, boards, bars, veil, and door hanging.

• Exodus 35

  In this chapter Moses restates the Sabbath ordinance and gathers offerings and workers for building the tabernacle. The people bring their offerings willingly, and Bezalel and Oholiab are introduced as the men appointed to carry out the work.

• Numbers 28

  Numbers 28 sets out the kinds and quantities of offerings to be presented in the daily continual burnt offering and on the Sabbath, the new moon, Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and the Feast of Weeks. Together with chapter 29, it forms Israel's annual calendar of sacrifices.

• 1 Kings 3

  1 Kings 3 recounts how Solomon offers a thousand burnt offerings at Gibeon, asks God for wisdom in a dream and receives it, and then wisely settles a dispute between two women over a single child.

• 2 Chronicles 1

  2 Chronicles 1 recounts how Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings before the tabernacle of the congregation at Gibeon and, when God appeared to him by night, asked for wisdom and knowledge to judge the people, receiving in addition a promise of riches and honor. The chapter then describes his chariots and wealth.

• Conaniah

  Conaniah was the chief Levite who took charge of the offerings, tithes, and dedicated things gathered in the temple storerooms during the reign of King Hezekiah of Judah. He appears in 2 Chronicles 31:12–13.

• Malachi 3:8–10

  In this passage the prophet Malachi rebukes the people for withholding tithes and offerings, charging that they have "robbed God," and urges them to bring all the tithes into the storehouse. It is the passage most frequently cited when Korean churches teach on tithing, and how it should be applied today is a matter of debate.

• Bible Sunday

  Bible Sunday is a Sunday set aside to reflect on the value of Scripture and to pray and give offerings for the translation and distribution of the Bible. In Korea, churches observe it each year on the second Sunday of December, with the Korean Bible Society leading the observance.

• Church Finance

  Church finance refers to the work and systems by which a church manages the money it receives through offerings and other sources, prepares and carries out budgets, and closes its accounts. The topic includes church accounting and financial disclosure.

• Collection for the Church in Jerusalem

  The collection for the church in Jerusalem was a relief effort in which the apostle Paul gathered offerings from Gentile churches in Macedonia, Achaia, and elsewhere in order to deliver them to the poor saints of the Jerusalem church.